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AN EVALUATION OF ORDER RELEASE MECHANISMS IN A JOB‐SHOP ENVIRONMENT
Author(s) -
Ragatz Gary L.,
Mabert Vincent A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1988.tb00260.x
Subject(s) - job shop , flow shop scheduling , queue , order (exchange) , computer science , operations research , aggregate (composite) , operations management , business , industrial engineering , job shop scheduling , economics , mathematics , engineering , schedule , materials science , finance , composite material , programming language , operating system
Controlling the flow of material on the shop floor involves releasing and dispatching jobs to meet customer due‐date requirements while attempting to keep operating costs low. This report presents an evaluation of five releasing mechanisms and four dispatching rules under various levels of aggregate due‐date tightness, shop cost structure, and machine utilization using simulation. The performance criteria of total shop cost, jobs on shop floor, deviation from due dates, and job queue time are collected to demonstrate the interactive nature of releasing and dispatching on shop performance.