A Production Scheduling Problem in the Glass-Container Industry
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Operations Research
- Vol. 27 (2) , 290-302
- https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.27.2.290
Abstract
By means of a computer simulation we examine the problem of scheduling parallel production lines in the glass-container industry with a resource constraint imposed by the furnace melting rate. The results of the simulation model are combined with relevant aspects of scheduling theory to arrive at the conclusion that a shortest processing time based dispatching rule probably provides the most efficient operating policy.Keywords
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