Workshop scheduling
Batch shop scheduling and design
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Workshop scheduling
Batch shop scheduling and design

Author : Catherine AZZARO-PANTEL

Publication date: July 10, 2005 | Lire en français

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2. Workshop scheduling

2.1 Definition

The workshop scheduling problem can be formulated as follows: schedule the set of tasks to be carried out as efficiently as possible, allocating the necessary resources to them and setting their start date.

The term "best effort" implicitly gives this definition an optimization function, so that the problem is not just a matter of determining feasible solutions, but also involves finding the most favorable of them, in terms of a desired criterion.

Although this problem may seem very general and can be applied to very different fields, such as mechanics, construction (project follow-up) or IT (tasks are programs, resources are processors or memory), there are many factors, specific...

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