An up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of scheduling theory, including recent advances and state-of-the-art topics 
Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling strikes a unique balance between theory and practice, providing an accessible introduction to the concepts, methods, and results of scheduling theory and its core topics. With real-world examples and up-to-date modeling techniques, the book equips readers with the basic knowledge needed for understanding scheduling theory and delving into its applications. The authors begin with an introduction and overview of sequencing and scheduling, including single-machine sequencing, optimization and heuristic solution methods, and models with earliness and tardiness penalties. The most current material on stochastic scheduling, including correct scheduling of safety time and the use of simulation for optimization, is then presented and integrated with deterministic models. Additional topical coverage includes: <ul>
<li>Extensions of the basic model</li> <li> Parallel-machine models </li> <li> Flow shop scheduling </li> <li> Scheduling groups of jobs </li> <li> The job shop problem </li> <li> Simulation models for the dynamic job shop </li> <li> Network methods for project scheduling </li> <li> Resource-constrained project scheduling </li> <li> Stochastic and safe scheduling </li> </ul>
Extensive end-of-chapter exercises are provided, some of which are spreadsheet-oriented, and link scheduling theory to the most popular analytic platform among today's students and practitioners—the Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheet. Extensive references direct readers to additional literature, and the book's related Web site houses material that reinforces the book's concepts, including research notes, data sets, and examples from the text. Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling is an excellent book for courses on sequencing and scheduling at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the fields of statistics, computer science, operations research, and engineering.

Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling

Business & Money

Baker, Kenneth R.

Trietsch, Dan

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

An updated edition of the text that explores the core topics in scheduling theory The second edition of Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling has been revised and updated to provide comprehensive coverage of sequencing and scheduling topics as well as emerging developments in the field. The text offers balanced coverage of deterministic models and stochastic models and includes new developments in safe scheduling and project scheduling, including coverage of project analytics. These new topics help bridge the gap between classical scheduling and actual practice. The authors—noted experts in the field—present a coherent and detailed introduction to the basic models, problems, and methods of scheduling theory. This book offers an introduction and overview of sequencing and scheduling and covers such topics as single-machine and multi-machine models, deterministic and stochastic problem formulations, optimization and heuristic solution approaches, and generic and specialized software methods. This new edition adds coverage on topics of recent interest in shop scheduling and project scheduling. This important resource: <ul>
<li>Offers comprehensive coverage of deterministic models as well as recent approaches and developments for stochastic models</li> <li>Emphasizes the application of generic optimization software to basic sequencing problems and the use of spreadsheet-based optimization methods</li> <li>Includes updated coverage on safe scheduling, lognormal modeling, and job selection</li> <li>Provides basic coverage of robust scheduling as contrasted with safe scheduling</li> <li>Adds a new chapter on project analytics, which supports the PERT21 framework for project scheduling in a stochastic environment.</li> <li>Extends the coverage of PERT 21 to include hierarchical scheduling</li> <li>Provides end-of-chapter references and access to advanced Research Notes, to aid readers in the further exploration of advanced topics </li> </ul>
Written for upper-undergraduate and graduate level courses covering such topics as scheduling theory and applications, project scheduling, and operations scheduling, the second edition of Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling is a resource that covers scheduling techniques and contains the most current research and emerging topics.

Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling (Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science)

wiley

While many books on quality espouse the Taguchi loss function, they do not examine its impact on statistical quality control (SQC). But using the Taguchi loss function sheds new light on questions relating to SQC and calls for some changes. This book covers SQC in a way that conforms with the need to minimize loss. Subjects often not covered elsewhere include: (i) measurements, (ii) determining how many points to sample to obtain reliable control charts (for which purpose a new graphic tool, diffidence charts, is introduced), (iii) the connection between process capability and tolerances, (iv) how to adapt Deming's kp rule to quadratic loss, (v) how to adjust without tampering. We also discuss the efficiency of various statistics and how control chart constants are derived.

STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL: A LOSS MINIMIZATION APPROACH (Series on Applied Mathematics, 10)

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

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