...Adam Diamant; Anton Shevchenko; David Johnston; Fayez Quereshy Purpose The authors determine how the scheduling and sequencing of surgeries by surgeons impacts the rate of post-surgical complications and patient length-of-stay in the hospital. Design/methodology/approach Leveraging a dataset...

... is scheduled as per MTS but then finished as per MTO according to the now-known specific customer order to which the product is assigned. The delivery time therefore would just be the time to complete the work after the CODP – the later it is, the shorter the delivery time. While in some cases the position...

... interested in the management/business case behind airline operations rather than in optimisation modelling. M.   Bazargan . Airline Operations and Scheduling . Ashgate , 2004 . 205 pp. , ISBN: 0‐7546‐3616‐X   £45 (Hardback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006...

... the implementation of the structure and the methods that were used to validate its functionality on a test‐case application (i.e. aircraft maintenance problem). © MCB UP Limited 2002 1. (1) Overall maintenance scheduling which involved hangar scheduling for a fleet of aircraft. 2. (2) Detailed...

...José A. Comesaña Benavides; J. Carlos Prado This paper presents our experience in the development of an expert system to be used for detailed scheduling in an industrial company. This was a middle‐sized company which builds metallic components for the automotive industry. Because of the complexity...

...Paul Gemmel; Roland Van Dierdonck Admission scheduling is identified as an important strategy to match supply and demand in acute care hospitals. During the last decades, many different theoretical models of admission scheduling have been developed, but only a few of them have reached the stage...

... size Bottlenecks Inventory Investment Scheduling During the last 30 years, researchers have had considerable interest in scheduling batch flow systems. An important aspect of this process is the sub‐batching decision or lot size determination for different jobs to minimize makespan, flow...

...Ricardo Sarmento Costa; Eduardo G.M. Jardim Presents results of a nine‐year research and development project. At the beginning a scheduling simulation software was built and assessed in real contexts. Then it has grown into a technology for shop‐floor planning and control in the jobbing industry...

...Kokin Lam; Wenxun Xing Reviews some new trends in parallel machine scheduling (PMS). PMS, as an area of research, is governed by questions that arise in production planning, flexible manufacture systems, computer control, etc. The main characteristic of these problems is to optimize an objective...

...Godfrey C. Onwubolu Describes flow‐shop scheduling problems and an interactive graphical flow‐shop manufacturing scheduling system (FSMS) developed to handle any number of jobs and machines. Outlines the methodical approach of using scheduling tools, such as lower bound, automatic generation...

...Anita Lee; Chun Hung Cheng Presents an object‐oriented system for scheduling in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) with the purpose of demonstrating how the control aspects of such a system can be enhanced by using metalevel planning. Represents the objects and metaknowledge of the system using...

... traditional cellular systems in which the shop is physically designed as a series of cells, cells are formed within a shop utilizing a process layout using scheduling mechanisms. The result is the formation of cells that are temporary and logical (virtual) in nature, allowing them to be more responsive...

... through different architecture of business control systems. Presents the state of these developments in Germany as analysed by a leading academic institution (the FIR at Aachen University of Technology). Compares this with UK developments, as seen by the Liverpool short‐term scheduling group, which...

... the models in terms of cost, size and scheduling effectiveness, within a common framework. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Cost variance Modelling Multimodel lines Operational research Optimization Production systems Scheduling Traditional plant layout is based on functional layout (FL...

...Stephen E. Bechtold; Michael J. Brusco Presents a new approach to working set generation for personnel scheduling problems. In full‐time (FT) and mixed‐workforce (MW)experiments, generates the schedules in the working sets from the use of two‐phase heuristic labour scheduling solution procedures...

...Mohamed H. Abdallah Constructs a knowledge‐based simulation model for job shop scheduling simulation techniques to build the initial status of the knowledge base. Uses the simulation experiments to study the effect of technological factors, such as machine loading conditions and criteria...

...Michel Nakhla Analyses the problems of production scheduling in the dairy product industry where variety and sell‐by date constraints have to be taken into account. Using the formalization of priorities as a basis, attempts to demonstrate that a thorough understanding of the relation between...

...V. Selladurai; P. Aravindan; S.G. Ponnambalam; A. Gunasekaran Deals with the dynamic scheduling problems and solutions of job shop comprising six work centres and n components. Concerns the behaviour of the system, with the arrival of urgent orders and normal orders. In a typical...

...Joel D. Wisner Reviews a critical aspect of job shop scheduling research, namely the decision regarding release timing of orders to the manufacturing shopfloor. Covers articles specifically addressing the order release problem; the information should prove helpful for researchers employing order...

...Chrwan‐jyh Ho; Hon‐Shiang Lau; Jing Li The general practice in implementing an appointment scheduling rule(ASR) is to enforce a certain rule, such as “block appointment”, to schedule customer arrivals in service systems. There are several commonly used ASRs that have been used in such service...