A Very Fast Production Scheduler

In: International journal of operations & production management, Band 14, Heft 8, S. 88-101

Abstract

A fast production scheduling system, the very fast scheduler (VFS), has
been developed by the authors. It creates a capacity constrained
production schedule within one minute of elapsed time for problems of a
size encountered in industry. The quality of the schedules is comparable
with the best alternative heuristic scheduling techniques. The speed of
the scheduler is such that it can be used on a real‐time basis to plan
capacity, adjust priorities and other parameters and derive new
schedules.