relation: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/213/
title: Report on "Scheduling in a factory"
creator: Cerdeira, J. Orestes
creator: Charters, T.
creator: Cruz, M.
creator: Freitas, P.
creator: Vasconcelos, P.B.
subject: Retail
description: In order to carry out their orders of shoe soles, this company has a number of tasks T_1, ..., T_n of different lengths to be assigned to groups of machines.  Each group is operated by one worker (two in one case), and an operation cycle corresponds to injection, cooling, and removal of the sole. The time taken at each step varies from one order to another, and when starting a new task a machine needs to be tuned, which takes some extra time. Machines are working in parallel. At the moment the assignment is carried out empirically, and the problem proposed is to optimize the procedure.
date: 2008
type: Study Group Report
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://miis.maths.ox.ac.uk/miis/213/1/foreverreport.pdf
identifier:   Cerdeira, J. Orestes and Charters, T. and Cruz, M. and Freitas, P. and Vasconcelos, P.B.  (2008) Report on "Scheduling in a factory".  [Study Group Report]