REGRESSION-BASED DUE-DATE ASSIGNMENT RULES FOR IMPROVED ASSEMBLY SHOPPERFORMANCE

Many simulation studies have evaluated sequencing rules and due date a ssignment methods for scheduling job shops. More recently researchers have studied multistage, or assembly, shops. Typically, due dates have been set by using a fixed multiple of the critical path length. This paper evaluates the effects on shop performance due to using a regress ion-based approach for setting due dates. The findings show that marke d improvement in the performance of dispatching rules can occur when t he proposed due date setting procedure is used.