Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services

Planning and scheduling are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and services industries. The planning and scheduling functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done. This second edition book focuses on planning and scheduling applications with a new chapter on planning and scheduling in health care.

The application areas considered in this book are divided into manufacturing applications and services applications. The book consists of four areas in planning and scheduling: preliminaries, planning and scheduling in manufacturing, planning and scheduling in services and systems development and implementation. It covers five areas in services: reservations and timetabling, tournament scheduling. At the end of each chapter, a case study or a system implementation is described in detail. Numerous examples and exercises throughout the book illustrate the material presented. The fundamentals concerning the methodologies used in the application chapters are covered in the appendices.

The book comes with a CD-ROM that contains various sets of PowerPoint slides. The CD also contains several planning and scheduling systems that have been developed in academia as well as generic optimization software that has been developed in industry.

This book is suitable for more advanced students in industrial engineering and operations research as well as graduate students in business.