Jeffrey W. Herrmann
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Although often studied as an isolated optimization problem, production scheduling in practice is a complex flow of information and decision-making. This paper discusses this perspective and presents ways to represent production scheduling systems. The paper uses a case study of a manufacturing facility to illustrate the concepts.
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