Scheduling in the dynamic job shop under auxiliary resource constraints: A simulation study

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Vidyaranya B. Gargeya, Professor and Department Head (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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Abstract: Traditionally, job shop research has only considered constraints related to machine and labour availability. With the advent of flexible manufacturing systems and just-in-time manufacturing, practitioners have recognized the importance of auxiliary resources (e.g. tooling) in production activity control and shop scheduling. In recent years, it has been recognized that theory and practice based on labour-constrained job shops cannot be generalized to auxiliary resource-constrained job shops. This paper presents a study of scheduling in the dynamic job shop under auxiliary resource constraints. Local and lookahead dispatching and resource assignment rules, and a global Contingency Based Scheduling (CBS) approach are developed and evaluated in a dynamic job shop constrained by auxiliary resources. Several traditional measures of performance are employed, including root mean square of tardiness, average system time and percentage of auxiliary resource changes. As shop utilization increases, the study reveals that the CBS algorithm is the only scheduling mechanism that consistently provides high performance on all three measures.

Additional Information

Publication
International Journal of Production Research
Language: English
Date: 1999
Keywords
manufacturing systems, auxiliary resources, performance, Contingency Based Scheduling (CBS)

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