2013
Online Scheduling in ManufacturingA Cumulative Delay ApproachAuthors:

• Haruhiko Suwa,
• Hiroaki Sandoh
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ISBN: 978-1-4471-4560-8 (Print) 978-1-4471-4561-5  (Online)



A Cumulative Delay Approach

Suwa, Haruhiko, Sandoh, Hiroaki

2013, IX, 156 p. 72 illus.


ISBN 978-1-4471-4561-5

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About this book

• Provides a taxonomy for scheduling with uncertainty from the viewpoint of a when-to-schedule policy
•                                         Introduces new approaches to online scheduling based on a concept of cumulative delay
•                                         Discusses the importance of when-to-revise policies during a schedule execution and their influences on scheduling results
  

Online scheduling is recognized as the crucial decision-making process of production control at a phase of “being in production" according to the released shop floor schedule. Online scheduling can be also considered as one of key enablers to realize prompt capable-to-promise as well as available-to-promise to customers along with reducing production lead times under recent globalized competitive markets.
Online Scheduling in Manufacturing introduces new approaches to online scheduling based on a concept of cumulative delay. The cumulative delay is regarded as consolidated information of uncertainties under a dynamic environment in manufacturing and can be collected constantly without much effort at any points in time during a schedule execution. In this approach, the cumulative delay of the schedule has the important role of a criterion for making a decision whether or not a schedule revision is carried out. The cumulative delay approach to trigger schedule revisions has the following capabilities for the practical decision-making:
1. To reduce frequent schedule revisions which do not necessarily improve a current situation with much expense for its operation;
2. To avoid overreacting to disturbances dependent on strongly an individual shop floor circumstance; and
3. To simplify the monitoring process of a schedule status.
Online Scheduling in Manufacturing will be of interest to both practitioners and researchers who work in planning and scheduling in manufacturing. Readers will find the importance of when-to-revise policies during a schedule execution and their influences on scheduling results.

Table of contents Introduction
Scheduling Strategies Coping with Uncertainty
When-to-Schedule Policy Using Cumulative Delay
Cumulative Delay Based Periodic Rescheduling
Cumulative Delay Based Reactive Scheduling
Hybrid When-to-Schedule Policies with Cumulative Delay
Discussions
Conclusions

• Authors & Editors
  

Haruhiko Suwa is a Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Setsunan University. His research is in Manufacturing Engineering and Systems Engineering.

Hiroaki Sandoh is a Professor at Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, working in the areas of Operations Research and Management Science.