Horng-Chyi Horng* Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Wufong, Taichung 41349, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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Unlike implemented in other production systems, dispatching in an open shop notonly takes into account the job priority at each machine but also the selection of the next machinefor any jobs leaving the current machine. The control mechanism for scheduling in an openshop can be utilized by a dispatching rule-pair that consists of a machine-selection rule and ajob-dispatching rule. This study conducts a steady-state simulation comparison on the performanceof 39 dispatching rule-pairs in open shops. We find that using NINQ as the machine-selection rule can minimize the mean flowtime of jobs while using LINQ as the machine-selection rule can minimize mean tardiness of jobs for most cases. The choice of the bestdispatching rule-pair depends on the selected performance criterion as well as the system’s configurationssuch as utilization factor, number of machines, and processing time distribution ofjobs. Finally, under similar system configurations, the best job-dispatching rule in an open shopis different from that of a job shop.ABSTRACT
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Open shops; Steady-state Simulation; Dispatching Rules.
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Horng, H.-C., 2006. Comparing Steady-state performance of dispatching Rule-pairs in open shops. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, 4, 3, https://doi.org/10.6703/IJASE.2006.4(3).259
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