Abstract

Effective Methods of Scheduling

Scheduling is a term which we used in our day to day life. It is a plan prepared for smooth conduction of any activity. Schedule gives us the answer of the question ‘when’. In industries scheduling plays an important role for getting maximum output usingavailable resources andraw material. One of the important tasks is designing model to understand the schedule and finding the solution for the problem. There are several methods of machine scheduling which are often used in production. A model may be of single machine or multiple machine models. De-pending on number of machines the optimization techniques are developed and used. In this paper we have tried to compare the different methods of machine scheduling. In scheduling problems there are two common types of con-straints. One of the constraints is limitations ofnumber of machines and another is restriction of jobs performed on machines. Depending on this factors the various methods of scheduling like Gantt chart method, Johnson’s rule, Proposed method, Palmers heuristic method etc. are discussed in this paper and tried to find the effective method for optimization problem.

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