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Handbook of Production Scheduling

  • Scheduling is a basic core research stream in OR that is applied across a variety of discipline domains including Engineering, Computer Science, Production Operations, Manufacturing, and other areas. The handbook’s emphasis on "real world" problems and practice will be its key selling point
  • There are a variety of scheduling texts and handbooks that stress the theoretical and mathematical models of scheduling, including Michael Pinedo's Scheduling textbook and Joseph Leung's Handbook of Scheduling. This book will stress the results from real-world scheduling, case studies of innovative scheduling practice and techniques, etc.
  • Outlines four important roles for simulation when improving production scheduling: generating schedules, evaluating parameter settings, emulating a scheduling system, and evaluating deterministic scheduling approaches
  • System-level issues are discussed that are relevant to production scheduling as well as their importance in modern manufacturing organizations
  • Of specific interest is the state-of-the-art in production scheduling of semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities and the difficulty of their complex flow processes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 89)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. A History of Production Scheduling

    • Jeffrey W. Herrmann
    Pages 1-22
  3. The Human Factor in Planning and Scheduling

    • Kenneth N. McKay, Vincent C. S. Wiers
    Pages 23-57
  4. Decision-Making Systems in Production Scheduling

    • Jeffrey W. Herrmann
    Pages 91-108
  5. Scheduling and Simulation

    • John W. Fowler, Lars Mönch, Oliver Rose
    Pages 109-133
  6. Rescheduling Strategies, Policies, and Methods

    • Jeffrey W. Herrmann
    Pages 135-148
  7. Coordination Issues in Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling

    • Stephan Kreipl, Jorg Thomas Dickersback, Michael Pinedo
    Pages 177-212
  8. Semiconductor Manufacturing Scheduling and Dispatching

    • Michele E. Pfund, Scott J. Mason, John W. Fowler
    Pages 213-241
  9. The Slab Design Problem in the Steel Industry

    • Milind Dawande, Jayant Kalagnanam, Ho Soo Lee, Chandra Reddy, Stuart Siegel, Mark Trumbo
    Pages 243-264
  10. A Review of Long- and Short-Term Production Scheduling at Lkab’s Kiruna Mine

    • Alexandra M. Newman, Michael Martinez, Mark Kuchta
    Pages 265-286
  11. Scheduling Models for Optimizing Human Performance and Well-Being

    • Emmett J. Lodree Jr., Bryan A. Norman
    Pages 287-313
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 315-320

About this book

Handbook of Production Scheduling concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories and industrial settings. It includes industry case studies that use innovative techniques as well as academic research results that can be used to improve real-world production scheduling. Its purpose is to present scheduling principles, advanced tools, and examples of innovative scheduling systems to persons who could use this information to improve production scheduling in their own organization.

The intended audience includes: production and plant managers, industrial engineers, operations research practitioners, advanced undergraduate/ graduate students and faculty studying and doing research in operations research and industrial engineering.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Herrmann’s book describes in detail new production-scheduling problems and challenges. … this book is an excellent tool for use as a reference book for readers who wish to build new production-scheduling procedures. … I think this is an interesting book about production scheduling and related issues for use by many students, professionals, professors, and researchers to learn the key concepts about this topic. Therefore, I consider this work as a valuable reference for graduate students or researchers interested in production scheduling in a wider sense." (Javier Faulin, Interfaces, Vol. 38 (3), 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, College Park

    Jeffrey W. Herrmann

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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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