| Author: | Adler, L. |
| Title: | BPSS: a scheduling support system for the packaging industry |
| Journal: | Operations Research
1993 : JUL-AUG, VOL. 41, p. 641-648 |
| Index terms: | SCHEDULING PACKAGING INDUSTRY ALGORITHMS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper describes a scheduling support system for plants that produce multiply paper bags. The machine environment in these plants may be described as a flexible flow shop. That is, there are a number of stages in series with a number of machines in parallel at each stage. The jobs have specified shipping dates as well as priorities; their processing times and setup times are known in advance. The authors developed a five-step algorithm that schedules all the jobs at the various stages. This algorithm has been incorporated in a system, the Bagpack Production Scheduling System (BPSS), which also contains a data base management module and a user interface module. |
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