Model for different Scheduling rule
Posted: Tuesday 03 June, 2014 - 12:35
Dear community members,
Currently I'm doing my graduation project at a furniture production company in Poland. I want to model a simple production environment that consists of the following parts:
1: Job Shop production, with 32 machines and different routings through component lines.
2: Assembly lines, sequentially consisting of 5 processes.
Now as I study Industrial Engineering and I learned from my statistics lecturer that there are 8 kind of scheduling rules which the production planner can use (Earliest Due Date, Shortest Operating Time, Least amount of Slack Time etc.), I want to compare the scheduling rule: Earliest Due Date (which the company uses now) with Shortest Operating Time (desired situation) and what the effects are on lead time, utilization rate and maybe other factors.
As I've read the basic tutorial of ED, I know that scheduling is part of input strategy. Now I have the following question:
1: Is it possible to model such scheduling situations?
If yes: can you please show me how I can do it?
If no: are there any alternatives available?
I collected already some amount of data including cycle times, set up times, routing scheme and BOM lines.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Jeroen
Currently I'm doing my graduation project at a furniture production company in Poland. I want to model a simple production environment that consists of the following parts:
1: Job Shop production, with 32 machines and different routings through component lines.
2: Assembly lines, sequentially consisting of 5 processes.
Now as I study Industrial Engineering and I learned from my statistics lecturer that there are 8 kind of scheduling rules which the production planner can use (Earliest Due Date, Shortest Operating Time, Least amount of Slack Time etc.), I want to compare the scheduling rule: Earliest Due Date (which the company uses now) with Shortest Operating Time (desired situation) and what the effects are on lead time, utilization rate and maybe other factors.
As I've read the basic tutorial of ED, I know that scheduling is part of input strategy. Now I have the following question:
1: Is it possible to model such scheduling situations?
If yes: can you please show me how I can do it?
If no: are there any alternatives available?
I collected already some amount of data including cycle times, set up times, routing scheme and BOM lines.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Jeroen