The development of advanced methods for scheduling production processes

The planning of dates and capacities belongs to the area of production management. Scheduling represents the allocation of scarce sources to tasks in a definite period of time. So it is about a process of deciding, with the goal of optimization, about one or more criteria. In general it includes rough (long-term), medium-term and detailed (short-term) planning. The last of these has the greatest importance because of a direct connection with operational effectiveness. Some developed scheduling procedures are presented in the paper i.e., the priority (dispatching) rules, the filtered-beam search, and the constraint-guided heuristic search. All this is substantiated with described examples. (c) 2007 Journal of Mechanical Engineering. All rights reserved.