A practical scheduling method for multiclass production systems with setups

A practical scheduling method for multiclass production systems with setups

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Article ID: iaor20001539
Country: United States
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 116
End Page Number: 130
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Journal: Management Science
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Keywords: production, service
Abstract:

Consider a multiclass production system where many job classes share a single server and setup time is incurred whenever the server changes class. This paper presents a simple method for scheduling these systems that performs well, not only with respect to mean waiting time, but also with respect to waiting-time variance and the outer percentiles of waiting time. The scheduling method is dynamic and uses the ages of items in each queue, as well as the queue statistics, to decide which queue to service next.

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