A bottleneck-based due-date assignment methodology
by Yu-Jen Chang, Ching-En Lee
International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management (IJMTM), Vol. 1, No. 2/3, 2000

Abstract: On-time delivery is one of the most important performance criteria in today's manufacturing systems. To enhance delivery performance, the appropriate assignment of an order's due-date is necessary. In recent years, many due-date setting methods based on regression analysis models have been proposed. Although some of them emphasise the use of shop floor information in due-date setting, the bottleneck scheduling information has not yet been taken into consideration by those methods. It is the objective of this paper to propose a new due-date assignment method based on bottleneck scheduling information. To assign an order's due-date, this proposed method first optimises the job sequence at the bottleneck using a Tabu search algorithm and then predicts the order's flow time after its completion of its bottleneck operation. Experimental results show that the proposed method can greatly enhance the delivery performance.

Online publication date: Wed, 02-Jul-2003

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