1. What is the overall objective of scheduling?
2. List the four criteria for determining the effectiveness of a scheduling decision. How do these criteria relate to the four criteria for sequencing decisions?
3. Describe what is meant by "loading" work centers. What are the two ways work centers can be loaded? What are two techniques used in loading?
4. Name five priority sequencing rules. Explain how each works to assign jobs.
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the shortest processing time (SPT) rule?
2. What is a due date?
3. Explain the terms flow time and lateness.
4. Which shop-floor scheduling rule would you prefer to apply if you were the leader of the only team of experts charged with defusing several time bombs scattered throughout your building? You can see the bombs; they are of different types. You can tell how long each one will take to defuse. Discuss.
1. When is Johnson's rule best applied in job-shop scheduling?
2. State the four effectiveness measures for dispatching rules.
3. What are the steps of the assignment method of linear programming?
4. What are the advantages to finite capacity scheduling?
5. What is input-output control?