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22 Cards in this Set
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Scheduling
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Establishing the timing of the use of equipment, facilities, and human activities in an organizations.
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Flow system
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High-volume system with standardized equipment and activities.
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Flow-shop scheduling
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Scheduling for flow systems.
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Job-shop scheduling
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Scheduling for low-volume systems with many variations in requirements.
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Loading
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The assignment of jobs to processing centers.
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Gantt chart
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Chart used as visual aid for loading and scheduling purposes.
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Load chart
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A Gantt chart that shows the loading and idle times for a group of machines or list of departments.
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Infinite loading
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Jobs are assigned to work centers without regard to the capacity of the work center.
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Finite loading
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Jobs are assigned to work centers taking into account the work center capacity and job processing times.
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Forward scheduling
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Scheduling ahead form a point in time.
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Backward scheduling
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Scheduling backward from a due date.
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Schedule chart
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A Gantt chart that shows the orders or jobs in progress and whether they are on schedule.
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Input/output (I/O) control
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Managing work flow and queues at work centers.
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Assignment model
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A linear programming model for optimal assignment of tasks and resources.
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Hungarian method
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Method of assigning jobs by one-for-one matching to identify the lowest-cost solution.
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Sequencing
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Determining the order in which jobs at a work center will be processed.
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Workstation
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An area where one or a few workers and/or machines perform similar work.
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Priority rules
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Simple heuristics used to select the order in which jobs will be processed.
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Job time
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Time needed for setup and processing of a job.
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Makespan
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Total time needed to complete a group of jobs from the beginning of the first job to the completion of the last job.
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Johnson's rule
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Technique for minimizing makespan for a group of jobs to e processed on two machines or at two work centers.
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Yield management
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The application of pricing strategies to allocate capacity among various categories of demand.
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