A Production Scheduling Problem in the Glass-Container Industry

R. J. Paul
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R. J. Paul: London School of Economics, London, England

Operations Research, 1979, vol. 27, issue 2, 290-302

Abstract: By means of a computer simulation we examine the problem of scheduling parallel production lines in the glass-container industry with a resource constraint imposed by the furnace melting rate. The results of the simulation model are combined with relevant aspects of scheduling theory to arrive at the conclusion that a shortest processing time based dispatching rule probably provides the most efficient operating policy.

Date: 1979
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