In the fashion industry, order scheduling focuses on the assignment of production orders to appropriate production lines. In reality, before a new order can be put into production, a series of activities known as pre-production events need to be completed. In addition, in real production process, owing to various uncertainties, the daily production quantity of each order is not always as expect...

In many organizations, production planning is part of a hierarchical planning, capacity/resource allocation, scheduling and control framework. The production plan considers resource capacities, time periods, supply and demand over a reasonably long planning horizon at a high level. Its decision then forms the input to the more detailed, shorter-term functions such as scheduling and control at t...

Production planning and production control mainly focus on optimising the entire production system of a company. On the basis of hierarchical planning as a suitable method for solving this task, this paper shows besides the economic dimension taken into account so far that there are also social and ecological effects which will have to be considered in the process of planning. For this purpose,...

Production scheduling activities are common but complex. This leads to many different views and perspectives of production scheduling. Each perspective has a particular scope, its own set of assumptions, and a different approach to improving production scheduling. This paper covers three important perspectives (the problem-solving perspective, the decision-making perspective, and the organizati...

Scheduling is an important tool for manufacturing and engineering, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process (Min et al., 2009). In manufacturing, the purpose of production scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by informing a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment (Zhu et al., 2011). Nowadays, it is possible to obser...

The production of bakery goods is strictly time sensitive due to the complex biochemical processes during dough fermentation, which leads to special requirements for production planning and scheduling. Instead of mathematical methods scheduling is often completely based on the practical experience of the responsible employees in bakeries. This sometimes inconsiderate scheduling approach often l...

In general, distributed scheduling problem focuses on simultaneously solving two issues: (i) allocation of jobs to suitable factories and (ii) determination of the corresponding production scheduling in each factory. The objective of this approach is to maximize the system efficiency by finding an optimal planning for a better collaboration among various processes. This makes distributed schedu...

Traditional scheduling methods such as CPM or PERT have been found to be inappropriate for scheduling the linear construction projects. According to the limitations of Traditional scheduling methods, Linear Scheduling Method (LSM) is proposed specifically for linear construction projects. Aiming at overcoming the limitations of network technology in deciding the production rate of linear constr...

A major challenge for research in production management is to develop new finite-capacity scheduling techniques and tools that (1) can account more precisely for actual production management constraints and objectives, (2) are better suited for handling production contingencies, and (3) allow the user to interactively manipulate the production schedule to reflect idiosyncratic constraints and p...