Production Scheduling

Question 1

Describe Planning a project

Answer 1

Planning describes what and how the project will be accomplished

Question 2

What does scheduling determine?

Answer 2

Determines whom and when something will be done.

Crucial means of communication with contractors, owners, co-workers and company departments

Question 3

Describe a Continuous conversion system

Answer 3

A high volume of similar products are produced.

Question 4

What is an Intermittent Conversion system

Answer 4

Is when a variety of custom products are produced at one time, or small groupings or different products are produced in batches.Low Vol High Mix

Question 5

3 types of scheduling methods?

Answer 5

Finite Loading

Forward Scheduling

Backward Scheduling

Question 6

What is Finite Loading

Answer 6

Common Scheduling method

Work centers are loaded up based on known capacity levels, and on max hours and Labour available.

As jobs are loaded on work center a Calculation of the amount of time for each job is scheduled by simulating start and completion times.

Books all available capacity in future work

Question 7

What is Forward Scheduling

Answer 7

Loading schedule based on start date of a project

Question 8

What is backward scheduling?

Answer 8

Used in continuous conversion shops that produce homogenous products.

Starts with the date of completion for the job

No extra time to complete work.

Question 9

What is the Critical Path Method?

Answer 9

Allows a higher level of complexity and dependency between the scheduled activities.

Used in conjunction with a Bar Chart

Often used in larger cabinetmaking companies during the prototyping of new product lines.

Question 10

What is the picture demonstrating?

Answer 10

Finite capacity Loading

Question 11

What is this picture demonstrating

Answer 11

Critical path activity on a node shenatic model