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An Economic Evaluation of Job Shop Dispatching Rules

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  • C. H. Jones

    (Arthur Young & Co., New York, New York)

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This paper attempts to provide an economic framework in which various job shop dispatching rules can be evaluated. It shows the relative advantage of shortest processing time rules in gaining increased utilization of the shop facilities and the relative advantage of minimum slack rules in meeting promise commitments. The paper graphs each of four kinds of costs (costs of long promises, costs of missed promises, costs of idle resources, and costs of carrying inventory) against two independent variables, the amount of work-in-process inventory and the tightness of the promises. It demonstrates the kind of cost structure which causes a minimum slack rule to be superior to a shortest processing time rule.

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  • C. H. Jones, 1973. "An Economic Evaluation of Job Shop Dispatching Rules," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 20(3), pages 293-307, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:20:y:1973:i:3:p:293-307
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.20.3.293
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    1. Soroush, H. M., 1999. "Sequencing and due-date determination in the stochastic single machine problem with earliness and tardiness costs," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 113(2), pages 450-468, March.
    2. Valls, Vicente & Angeles Perez, M. & Sacramento Quintanilla, M., 1998. "A tabu search approach to machine scheduling," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 106(2-3), pages 277-300, April.
    3. Enns, S. T., 2000. "Evaluating shop floor input control using rapid modeling," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 63(3), pages 229-241, January.
    4. Land, Martin J. & Stevenson, Mark & Thürer, Matthias & Gaalman, Gerard J.C., 2015. "Job shop control: In search of the key to delivery improvements," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 168(C), pages 257-266.
    5. (Van) Enns, S. T., 1995. "An economic approach to job shop performance analysis," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(2-3), pages 117-131, March.
    6. Graves, Stephen C., 1984. "Operational analysis of a job shop," Working papers 1552-84., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    7. Altendorfer, Klaus & Jodlbauer, Herbert, 2011. "Which utilization and service level lead to the maximum EVA?," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 130(1), pages 16-26, March.
    8. Joglekar, Nitin R. & Ford, David N., 2005. "Product development resource allocation with foresight," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 160(1), pages 72-87, January.
    9. Enns, S. T., 1998. "Lead time selection and the behaviour of work flow in job shops," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 109(1), pages 122-136, August.
    10. Saeed Yaghoubi, 2015. "Due-date assignment for multi-server multi-stage assembly systems," International Journal of Systems Science, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(7), pages 1246-1256, May.

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