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Search and Simulation Selection of a Job-Shop Sequencing Rule

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  • James C. Hershauer

    (Arizona State University)

  • Ronald J. Ebert

    (University of Missouri--Columbia)

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A standardized approach to selecting a simple sequencing rule for decentralized application throughout a job shop is developed and illustrated. The sequencing rule is a linear combination of decision factors, each of which is initially assigned a relative weighting. The rule is then used to determine the priority of each job in the queues, and resulting shop costs are determined by computer simulation. The coefficients of the priority function are thereafter modified by a patterned search procedure to find priority coefficients that minimize expected cost per order for a specified cost structure. The cost structure is a combination of multiple response measures for the shop. Rather than leading to a "single best rule" for all job shops, the approach is a "method for finding" a sequencing rule that performs well in any specific job shop situation.

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  • James C. Hershauer & Ronald J. Ebert, 1975. "Search and Simulation Selection of a Job-Shop Sequencing Rule," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 21(7), pages 833-843, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:21:y:1975:i:7:p:833-843
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.21.7.833
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    1. Chandrashekar, Ashok & Callarman, Thomas E., 1998. "A modelling study of the effects of continuous incremental improvement in the case of a process shop," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 109(1), pages 111-121, August.
    2. Pickardt, Christoph W. & Hildebrandt, Torsten & Branke, Jürgen & Heger, Jens & Scholz-Reiter, Bernd, 2013. "Evolutionary generation of dispatching rule sets for complex dynamic scheduling problems," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(1), pages 67-77.
    3. Kim, S. C. & Bobrowski, P. M., 1997. "Scheduling jobs with uncertain setup times and sequence dependency," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 437-447, August.
    4. Agliari, Anna & Diligenti, Mauro & Zavanella, Lucio, 1995. "Variable priority dispatching rules: An analytical approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(1-3), pages 51-58, October.
    5. Azadivar, Farhad & Lee, Young-Hae, 1988. "Optimization of discrete variable stochastic systems by computer simulation," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 331-345.

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