Chapter 16 - Scheduling. When you finish this chapter, you should be able to: Explain what scheduling involves and the importance of good scheduling, compare product and service scheduling hierarchies, describe scheduling needs in high-volume systems,. | Scheduling McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. You should be able to: Explain what scheduling involves and the importance of good scheduling Describe scheduling needs in high-volume and intermediate-volume systems Describe scheduling needs in job shops Use and interpret Gantt charts, and use the assignment method for loading Give examples of commonly used priority rules Summarize some of the unique problems encountered in service systems, and describe some of the approaches used for scheduling service systems 16- Student Slides Scheduling: Establishing the timing of the use of equipment, facilities and human activities in an organization Effective scheduling can yield Cost savings Increases in productivity Other benefits 16- Student Slides Flow System High-volume system in which all jobs follow the same sequence Flow system scheduling Scheduling for flow systems The goal is to achieve a smooth rate of flow of goods or . | Scheduling McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. You should be able to: Explain what scheduling involves and the importance of good scheduling Describe scheduling needs in high-volume and intermediate-volume systems Describe scheduling needs in job shops Use and interpret Gantt charts, and use the assignment method for loading Give examples of commonly used priority rules Summarize some of the unique problems encountered in service systems, and describe some of the approaches used for scheduling service systems 16- Student Slides Scheduling: Establishing the timing of the use of equipment, facilities and human activities in an organization Effective scheduling can yield Cost savings Increases in productivity Other benefits 16- Student Slides Flow System High-volume system in which all jobs follow the same sequence Flow system scheduling Scheduling for flow systems The goal is to achieve a smooth rate of flow of goods or customers through the system in order to get high utilization of labor and equipment 16- Student Slides Outputs fall between the standardized type of output of high-volume systems and the make-to-order output of job shops Output rates are insufficient to warrant continuous production Rather, it is more economical to produce intermittently Work centers periodically shift from one product to another Student Slides 16- Job shop scheduling Scheduling for low-volume systems with many variations in requirements Make-to-order products Processing requirements Material requirements Processing time Processing sequence and steps A complex scheduling environment It is impossible to establish firm schedules until actual job orders are received 16- Student Slides Loading the assignment of jobs to processing centers Gantt chart Used as a visual aid for loading and scheduling purposes Purpose of the Gantt chart is to organize and visually display the actual or intended use of resources in a .
