scheduling chapter 16

Question 1

explain scheduling & the importance of it

Answer 1

establishing the timing of the use of equipment, facilities and human activities in an organization

Question 2

describe scheduling needs in high volume & intermediate volume systems

Answer 2

high- volume systems —
> uses standardized equipment and activities that provide identical or highly similar operations on customers or products as they pass through the system.

Question 3

describe scheduling needs in job shops

Answer 3

job shop using scheduling in low - volume systems are made to order and orders usually differ in processing requirements and materials needed.

Question 4

examples of commonly used priority rules

Answer 4

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Question 5

summarize the unique problems encountered in service systems

Answer 5

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Question 6

describe the approaches used for scheduling service systems

Answer 6

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Question 7

job - shop scheduling

Answer 7

scheduling for low - volume systems with many variations in requirements

Question 8

loading

Answer 8

assignment of jobs to processing centers