BU395 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Job Scheduler, Makespan, Gantt Chart
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Job scheduling establishing the starting and completion hour/date of operations for jobs or orders. Work centre a production area consisting of one or more workers and machines with similar capabilities, that can be considered as one unit for purpose of scheduling. Shop-floor control execution of the schedule maintaining, communicating, and monitoring the status of material, orders, ad process; and taking any necessary actions. Backward scheduling scheduling backward from the due date. Forward scheduling scheduling ahead, starting from the start date of a job. Staff scheduling determining the workdays, and start and end times on each workday, for each employee. Loading the assignment of jobs to work centres and to various machines within each work centre. Gantt chart a visual aid for loading, scheduling, and control purposes. Load/schedule gantt chart a gantt chart that shows the loading and timing of jobs for a resource. Managers may use the load/schedule gantt chart for trial-and-error schedule development.
