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Leonard S. Adler | Zendy; Nelson M. Fraiman | Zendy; Edward Kobacker | Zendy; Michael Pinedo | Zendy; Juan Carlos Plotnicoff | Zendy; Tso Pang Wu | Zendy

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BPSS: A Scheduling Support System for the Packaging Industry

Author(s) -

Leonard S. Adler,

Nelson M. Fraiman,

Edward Kobacker,

Michael Pinedo,

Juan Carlos Plotnicoff,

Tso Pang Wu

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

operations research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.797

H-Index - 140

eISSN - 1526-5463

pISSN - 0030-364X

DOI - 10.1287/opre.41.4.641

Subject(s) - computer science , scheduling (production processes) , flow shop scheduling , job scheduler , real time computing , operations research , database , distributed computing , job shop scheduling , operating system , operations management , schedule , cloud computing , engineering

This paper describes a scheduling support system for plants that produce multiply paper bags. The machine environment in these plants may be described as a flexible flow shop. That is, there are a number of stages in series with a number of machines in parallel at each stage. The jobs have specified shipping dates as well as priorities; their processing times and setup times are known in advance. We developed a five-step algorithm that schedules all the jobs at the various stages. This algorithm has been incorporated in a system, the Bagpak Production Scheduling System (BPSS), which also contains a data base management module and a user interface module. The system has been implemented in two plants, and is used on a regular basis. It has increased considerably the accuracy of the available information regarding the production process. The scheduler, in conjunction with the system, is able to produce better schedules; he now always knows where given performance measures stand. In addition, the available i...

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