Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services

This second edition book focuses on planning and scheduling applications with a new chapter on planning and scheduling in health care. Planning and scheduling are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and services industries. The planning and scheduling functions [...]
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This second edition book focuses on planning and scheduling applications with a new chapter on planning and scheduling in health care. Planning and scheduling are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and services industries. The planning and scheduling functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done. The application areas considered in this book are divided into manufacturing applications and services applications. The book covers four areas in planning and scheduling: preliminary scheduling, planning and scheduling in manufacturing, planning and scheduling in services and systems development and implementation. It covers four areas in services: reservations and timetabling, tournament scheduling, planning and scheduling in transportation, planning and scheduling in healthcare and workforce scheduling. At the end of each chapter, a case study or a system implementation is described in detail. Numerous examples and exercises throughout the book illustrate the material presented. The fundamentals concerning the methodologies used in the application chapters are covered in the appendices. The book comes with a CD-ROM that contains various sets of PowerPoint slides. The CD also contains several planning and scheduling systems that have been developed in academia as well as generic optimization software that has been developed in industry. This book is suitable for more advanced students in industrial engineering and operations research as well as graduate students in business. TOC:Introduction.- Manufacturing Models.- Service Models.- Project Planning and Scheduling.- Machine Scheduling and Job Shop Scheduling.- Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems.- Economic Lot Scheduling.- Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chains.- Interval Scheduling, Reservations, and Timetabling.- Planning and Scheduling in Sports and Entertainment.- Planning, Scheduling, and Timetabling in Transportation.- Planning and Scheduling in Healthcare.- Workforce Scheduling.- Systems Design and Implementation.- Advanced Concepts in Systems Design.- What Lies Ahead?- Mathematical Programming Formulations.- Exact Optimization Methods.- Heuristic Methods.- Constraint Programing Methods.- Selected Scheduuling Sytems.- The LEKIN Systems User's Guide.- Notation.- References.- Index. CD-ROM