Article ID: | iaor19951335 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 261 |
End Page Number: | 276 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Chen Houn-Gee |
Keywords: | heuristics |
Heuristic approaches were devised for operator scheduling in manned Grouped Technology (GT) cells. The heuristic approach consists of (1) Cycle Switching Rules (CSR) to deal with production environments covering a longer decision horizon, and (2) Dynamic Scheduling Rules (DSR) to deal with environments covering a shorter decision horizon. They differ in information requirements and decision horizons. In simulation experiments, it is shown that there is a predictable trade-off between the quality of the resulting schedule and the information content of heuristics used.