Patent ID: 8400679

Claim:
A system for processing a set of jobs in a production environment, the system comprising: a set of one or more resources in a chemical production environment; and a computer-readable storage medium comprising one or more programming instructions for performing a method of processing a set of jobs, the method comprising: providing a job set comprising one or more jobs, wherein each of the one or more print jobs has one or more corresponding setup characteristics, wherein the setup characteristics comprise a time period required to clean a resource from the set of resources in the chemical production environment, storing the job set in a computer-readable storage medium, identifying the job set as one of a first job processing speed set and a second job processing speed set based on the corresponding setup characteristics, if the job set is a first job processing speed set, routing the job set to a first subset of the set of one or more resources, wherein the first subset comprises one or more first resources for processing the job set, and if the job set is a second job processing speed set, routing the job set to a second subset of the set of one or more resources, wherein the second subset comprises one or more second resources for processing the job set.