A methodology for planning and controlling workload in a job-shop: a four-way decision-making problem

Three decades of workload control research: a systematic review of the literature

“…The results suggested that dynamic control might be a better solution than trying to find a best-fit combination of rules. Like many authors in the 1980s and 1990s, Moreira and Alves (2009) struggled to find one bestfit combination for the different control stages. The previous two decades had provided an almost exhaustive set of release methods; as a result, few attempts to add to this list have been made since 2000 and the number of contributions to research in Group 2 has significantly decreased.…”

“…The same four groups of research noted in the 1980s and 1990s are evident since 2000 but with changing importance and objectives. The only studies which continue research in Group 1 are Weng et al (2008) and Moreira and Alves (2009). Weng et al (2008) presented a multi-agent WLC methodology consisting of a network of four independent agents, one for each of the three ORR control stages and one for information feedback.…”

A real-time order acceptance and scheduling approach for permutation flow shop problems

“…Rogers and Nandi (2007) proposed an order acceptance/rejection rule that was based on the total workload (total processing time of each job in all machines), or the workload in the busiest machines. Moreira and Alves (2009) proposed order acceptance rules based on workload and negotiable due dates. After accepting an order, a scheduling was then generated by simple dispatching rules, namely least slack per remaining operations (S/OPN) (Nandi & Rogers, 2004;Rogers & Nandi, 2007), earliest due dates (EDD) (Moreira & Alves, 2009;Rogers & Nandi, 2007), and first come first serve rules (FCFS) (Moreira & Alves, 2009;Rogers & Nandi, 2007).…”

“…The scheduling was done by using dispatching rules (first come first serve rule, earliest due date, minimum slack per operation remaining). Moreira and Alves (2009) also used simulation to investigate multiple decision making (order acceptance, due date adjustment, order releasing and scheduling) in a job shop environment to improve lateness penalties and workload performance. Scheduling was generated by using both the earliest due date rules and also the first come first serve rules.…”

A lean-based ORR system for non-repetitive manufacturing

“…This is the reason why researchers have mostly focused on developing production planning and control approaches for such systems (Oosterman et al 2000). In particular, Order Review and Release (ORR) systems are appropriate means with which to plan MTO and ETO production, and job shops (see for example Land and Gaalman, F o r P e e r R e v i e w O n l y 1996, 1998Moreira and Alves, 2009;Baykasoğlu and Gӧçken, 2010). In fact, ORR systems have been developed essentially for job shops.…”