A method is described to assign product due dates for multistage assemblies with uncertain manufacturing and assembly process times. Earliest start times of operations are specified by a predetermined production plan and processing time distributions for operations are truncated at minimum processing times. The method systematically decomposes the complex product structures of multistage assemb...

Although integrated process planning and scheduling (IPPS) problem is studied extensively as with due-date assignment (SWDDA) in the literature, there are only a few studies on integration of these three manufacturing functions which planning, scheduling, assignment. Since outputs upper stream effect downstream higher gives better global performance, it to integrate functions. In this study ear...

We consider the problem of common due window location scheduling on a single machine, where the processing times of jobs depend both on their starting times and positions in a sequence. The problem is to determine the optimal earliest due date, the due window size, and the job schedule simultaneously to minimize costs for earliness, tardiness, earliest due date assignment and due window size pe...

An important special case of the problem studied in Cheng and Kovalyov (1996) arises when there are equal setup times and equal job processing times. Computational complexity of this case was indicated to be open, however. I prove its NP-hardness. Cheng and Kovalyov [l] introduced the following due date assignment and scheduling problem. There are n groups of jobs to be scheduled for processing...