production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own cons and pros, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

Production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. One of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. Both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own pros and cons, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

Production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. One of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. Both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own cons and pros, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

Production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. One of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. Both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own pros and cons, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

Production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. One of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. Both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own cons and pros, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

production planning is performed through diverse methods according to the type of the system it is structured upon. one of the most important steps before production planning is to determine which system best fits the firm, and how the facilities should be designed. both job-shop and group-technology systems have their own pros and cons, each of which is suitable to a specific kind of factory. ...

Process scheduling is a classical problem in the field of production planning and control; in particular, effective job shop scheduling remains an essential component in today’s highly dynamic and agile production environment. This paper presents unified framework for solving generic job shop scheduling problems based on the formulation of a job shop into three main classes of problem, namely, ...

in this paper, a new approach to overlapping operations in job shop scheduling is presented. in many job shops, a customer demand can be met in more than one way for each job, where demand determines the quantity of each finished job ordered by a customer. in each job, embedded operations can be performed due to overlapping considerations in which each operation may be overlapped with the other...

This paper presents a state of the art overview on Ants Systems. Initially the work proposes the fundamental concepts of Ants Theory and offers a description of the main algorithms (based on Ants Theory) and the respective fields of application. Among different fields of application, the paper focuses on industrial plants scheduling problems in open shop, flow shop and job shop systems. The las...

This paper addresses the application of AI techniques in a practical OR problem , i.e. scheduling. Scheduling is a scientific domain concerning the allocation of tasks to a limited set of resources over time. The goal of scheduling is to maximize (or minimize) different optimization criteria such as the makespan (i.e. the completion time of the last operation in the schedule), the occupation ra...