LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Gupta, D: Flow Shop Scheduling

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Beschreibung

Scheduling is generally considered to be the one of the most significant issue in the planning and operation of a manufacturing system. Better scheduling system has significant impact on cost reduction, increased productivity, customer satisfaction and overall competitive advantage. In addition, recent customer demand for high variety products has contributed to an increase in product complexity that further emphasizes the need for improved scheduling. Proficient scheduling leads to increase in capacity utilization efficiency and hence thereby reducing the time required to complete jobs and consequently increasing the profitability of an organization in present competitive environment. There are different systems of production scheduling including flow shop in which jobs are to be processed through machines for optimizing number of required performance measures.