Gj. Udo, A SIMULATION STUDY OF DUE-DATE ASSIGNMENT RULES IN A DYNAMIC JOB-SHOP, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45(12), 1994, pp. 1425-1435
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22
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Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
This paper is a report of a simulation study that investigates a dynam
ic approach to scheduling jobs in a multi-machine job shop. The worklo
ad information of a job is used in different forms to evaluate the sho
p performance based on three measures: mean job lateness, percentage o
f tardy jobs and lateness variance. Different combinations of due-date
assignment methods and sequencing rules are compared based on specifi
c performance criteria. The results indicate that using the cumulative
distribution function of workload information can yield a better perf
ormance than using a proportional function of workload information or
ignoring shop congestion information. A few situations are identified
in which workload information is not critical.