Overview
Provides a taxonomy for scheduling with uncertainty from the viewpoint of a when-to-schedule policy
Introduces new approaches to online scheduling based on a concept of cumulative delay
Discusses the importance of when-to-revise policies during a schedule execution and their influences on scheduling results
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Online Scheduling Models
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Online Scheduling Based on Cumulative Delay
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Back Matter
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About this book
Online scheduling is recognized as the crucial decision-making process of production control at a phase of “being in production" according to the released shop floor schedule. Online scheduling can be also considered as one of key enablers to realize prompt capable-to-promise as well as available-to-promise to customers along with reducing production lead times under recent globalized competitive markets.
Online Scheduling in Manufacturing introduces new approaches to online scheduling based on a concept of cumulative delay. The cumulative delay is regarded as consolidated information of uncertainties under a dynamic environment in manufacturing and can be collected constantly without much effort at any points in time during a schedule execution. In this approach, the cumulative delay of the schedule has the important role of a criterion for making a decision whether or not a schedule revision is carried out. The cumulative delay approach to trigger schedule revisions has the following capabilities for the practical decision-making:
1. To reduce frequent schedule revisions which do not necessarily improve a current situation with much expense for its operation;
2. To avoid overreacting to disturbances dependent on strongly an individual shop floor circumstance; and
3. To simplify the monitoring process of a schedule status.
Online Scheduling in Manufacturing will be of interest to both practitioners and researchers who work in planning and scheduling in manufacturing. Readers will find the importance of when-to-revise policies during a schedule execution and their influences on scheduling results.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Haruhiko Suwa is a Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Setsunan University. His research is in Manufacturing Engineering and Systems Engineering.
Hiroaki Sandoh is a Professor at Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, working in the areas of Operations Research and Management Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Online Scheduling in Manufacturing
Book Subtitle: A Cumulative Delay Approach
Authors: Haruhiko Suwa, Hiroaki Sandoh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4561-5
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4560-8Published: 11 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5827-1Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4561-5Published: 11 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 158
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Management