Introduction To Production Scheduling Page 6

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Production Scheduling (II)
The MRP tell us the quantities of products to
manufacture in every time bucket
However, MRP does not make any assumption about the
resources (i.e. labour, machines) currently available in the
factory
E.g. two different components have to be manufactured in the
same section. How to schedule them?
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Therefore, we have a number of jobs (
) to be
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manufactured over a number of machines (
)
The production scheduling problem deals with obtaining the
date for each job to enter on each machine
Not necessarily physical machines, they may be stages
(consisting on several machines or labour) in a
manufacturing process
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