Sequencing and scheduling of assembly operations

Design, planning and performance evaluation — the topics of Chapters 4, 5 and 6 — establish the system in which assembly operations are performed. Decisions based on design, planning and performance evaluation establish system capacity by fixing the number of resources (e.g. machines, tools and workers) and by determining fundamentals of the assembly process. Scheduling — and, more generally, production control — must operate within this constrained framework to ensure the timely flow of materials. Thus scheduling decisions are made in a dynamic, time-dependent environment. Even though scheduling decisions are made in a highly constrained environment, they can exert significant influence on the operation of an assembly system. In particular, scheduling is crucial to controlling in-process inventories and cycle times, and to providing competitive levels of customer (i.e. due date) performance. Thus scheduling is an important component in world-class assembly systems.

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