Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services [Paperback]

Pinedo is a major figure in the scheduling area (well versed in both stochastics and combinatorics) , and knows both the academic and practitioner side of the discipline.

This book includes the integration of case studies into the text.

It will appeal to engineering and business students interested in operations research.

The main emphasis of the book is on applications of various models that facilitate managerial decisions to be taken....The algorithms and techniques are explained by providing insight and illustration. --ZENTRALBLATT MATH

Preliminaries.- Manufacturing Models.- Service Models.- Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing.- Project Planning and Scheduling.- Machine Scheduling and Job Shop Scheduling.- Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems.- Economic Lot Scheduling.- Planning and Scheduling in Supply Chains.- Planning and Scheduling in Services.- Interval Scheduling, Reservations, and Timetabling.- Scheduling and Timetabling in Sports and Entertainment.- Planning, Scheduling, and Timetabling in Transportation.- Planning and Scheduling in Health Care.- Workforce Scheduling.- Systems Development and Implementation.- Systems Design and Implementation.- Advanced Concepts in Systems Design.- What Lies Ahead?.

From the reviews:

The main emphasis of the book is on applications of various models that facilitate managerial decisions to be taken & . The book can serve as a text for university students & . The algorithms and techniques are explained by providing insight and illustration & . A practitioner can use the book to identify a solution technique and the corresponding software tool to tackle a real-life problem & . A lecturer will find a relevant practical example to illustrate a mathematical algorithm she teaches. (Vitaly A. Strusevich, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1078, 2006)

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