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Production and Operations Management Neha Tikoo, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 14: Operations Scheduling

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction

14.1 Scheduling
14.1.1 Operations Scheduling Models
14.1.2 Hard Ceilings

14.1.3 Soft Ceilings
14.1.4 Sequencing
14.1.5 Detailed Scheduling
14.1.6 Expediting
14.1.7 Input-output Control

14.1.8 Non-cyclic Personnel Schedules
14.1.9 Scheduling Rules for the Workforce-Cyclic Personnel Schedules
14.2 Loading

14.2.1 Shop Loading
14.2.2 Index Method
14.3 Gantt Charts
14.4 Job Shop Scheduling
14.5 Scheduling in Services

14.6 Summary
14.7 Keywords
14.8 Review Questions

14.9 Further Readings
Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Recognize the concept of scheduling;
 Describe the diverse aspects of shop loading;

 Explain the procedure to develop gantt chart;
 Discuss various significant aspects of scheduling in services.

Introduction

Plant scheduling has indeed come a long way. It used to be some form of variation of order-
point scheduling. You take an order’s due date and work backwards through the bills of materials,

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