BU395 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Job Scheduler, Makespan
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Work center: production area consisting of 1+ workers and machines with similar capabilities. Job scheduling is final step before actual output is produced must be done within constraints. Many decisions made before this: strategic planning (capacity of process/equipment), aggregate planning (selection/training), mps/mrp. Shop-floor control: execution of the schedule and involves maintaining, communicating, and monitoring the status of material, orders, and pocess, and taking any necessary actions. Mrp doesn"t take load on component work centers into account result in overloaded machines must perform capacity requirement planning to identify capacity needs of mrp. Backward scheduling: mrp schedules planned order releases backward, starting from due date of product. Forward scheduling: scheduling begins from start time of job and works forward into future. Staff scheduling: determining the workdays, and start and end times on each workday for each employee. Affect customer-order completion dates and production costs through resource utilization.
