Article ID: | iaor20011727 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 99 |
End Page Number: | 110 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Sridharan V., Kanet John J. |
In the context of production scheduling, inserted idle time (IIT) occurs whenever a resource is deliberately kept idle in the face of waiting jobs. IIT schedules are particularly relevant in multimachine industrial situations where earliness costs and/or dynamically arriving jobs with due dates come into play. We provide a taxonomy of environments in which IIT scheduling is relevant, review the extant literature on IIT scheduling, and identify areas of opportunity for future research.