Table of Contents Related Topics Production scheduling Production sequencing Table of Contents Background Assumed Introductory course on production planning and scheduling. The exercise is designed to be run in a 2 hour microcomputer laboratory period. The concepts of cycle length and job flow time must be explained and the software must be demonstrated. Copyright Public domain. Modify exercise as you wish.
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Table of Contents Assessment Student reviews have been mixed. The cyclic schedules can get complicated and the schedules can get tangled up. The file readme.txt suggests a procedure to avoid tangled schedules. A two hour lab is probably too short to fully explore this tool. The Manufacturing System Development Game.