Production scheduling involves allocating resources, events, and processes to create goods and services in the most cost-efficient manner while balancing client needs and available resources. Effective scheduling can yield cost savings and increases in productivity. The main activities in scheduling are allocating orders, equipment, and personnel; determining sequence of order performance; initiating scheduled work; and shop-floor control. Scheduling difficulties include variability in setup times, processing times, interruptions, and job changes with no optimal method. Minimizing difficulties focuses on bottleneck operations, realistic due dates, and lot splitting of large jobs. Scheduling in services uses appointment, reservation, workforce scheduling, and coordinating multiple resources.
Production scheduling involves allocating resources, events, and processes to create goods and services in the most cost-efficient manner while balancing client needs and available resources. Effective scheduling can yield cost savings and increases in productivity. The main activities in scheduling are allocating orders, equipment, and personnel; determining sequence of order performance; initiating scheduled work; and shop-floor control. Scheduling difficulties include variability in setup times, processing times, interruptions, and job changes with no optimal method. Minimizing difficulties focuses on bottleneck operations, realistic due dates, and lot splitting of large jobs. Scheduling in services uses appointment, reservation, workforce scheduling, and coordinating multiple resources.
Production scheduling involves allocating resources, events, and processes to create goods and services in the most cost-efficient manner while balancing client needs and available resources. Effective scheduling can yield cost savings and increases in productivity. The main activities in scheduling are allocating orders, equipment, and personnel; determining sequence of order performance; initiating scheduled work; and shop-floor control. Scheduling difficulties include variability in setup times, processing times, interruptions, and job changes with no optimal method. Minimizing difficulties focuses on bottleneck operations, realistic due dates, and lot splitting of large jobs. Scheduling in services uses appointment, reservation, workforce scheduling, and coordinating multiple resources.
Production scheduling is the management and allocation of resources, events and
processes to create goods and services. A business adjusts its production schedule based on the availability of resources, client orders and efficiencies. The goal of production scheduling is to balance client needs with available resources while operating in the most cost-efficient manner.
Effective scheduling can yield Cost savings Increases in productivity
The main activities involved in scheduling are :-
1. Allocating orders, equipment, and personnel 2. Determining the sequence of order performance 3. Initiating performance of the scheduled work 4. Shop-floor control
Typically production can be divided into two systems :- a) High-Volume Systems also called a flow system with Standardized equipment and activities.The scheduling for this system is called as Flow-shop scheduling ie : Scheduling for high-volume flow system
High-Volume Success Factors a) Process and product design b) Preventive maintenance c) Rapid repair when breakdown occurs d) Optimal product mixes e) Minimization of quality problems f) Reliability and timing of supplies
b) Scheduling Low-Volume Systems The two important concepts are :- a) Loading - assignment of jobs to process centers b) Sequencing - determining the order in which jobs will be processed
The scheduling for this system is called as Job-shop scheduling with many variations in requirements.
Workstation: An area where one person works, usually with special equipment, on a specialized job.
Scheduling Difficulties The difficulties faced in scheduling are the following :- a) Variability in b) Setup times c) Processing times d) Interruptions e) Changes in the set of jobs f) No method for identifying optimal schedule g) Scheduling is not an exact science h) Ongoing task for a manager
Minimizing Scheduling Difficulties a) Set realistic due dates b) Focus on bottleneck operations c) Consider lot splitting of large jobs
Scheduling in Service Operations Appointment systems Controls customer arrivals for service eg appointment with Doctor. Reservation systems Estimates demand for service . Scheduling the workforce Manages capacity for service Scheduling multiple resources Coordinates use of more than one resource
Cyclical Scheduling 1. Hospitals, police/fire departments, restaurants, supermarkets 2. Rotating schedules Set a scheduling horizon Identify the work pattern Develop a basic employee schedule Assign employees to the schedule
Service Operation Problems Cannot store or inventory services Customer service requests are random Scheduling service involves Customers Workforce Equipment