Bottleneck allocation methodology: An algorithm

Takes the development of a new optimization process for production scheduling and develops it into a systematic-mathematical algorithm. Tests this algorithm against a simulated production environment and compares the generated schedules against those generated by economic order quantity, materials requirement planning, just-in-time and optimized production technology. The result is that bottleneck allocation methodology, with its critical resource based capacity scheduling, out-performs these other models in an intermittent demand discrete manufacturing environment.