“…The quality and reliability of internal operations in manufacturing companies affect the level of schedule nervousness they experience and thus the operation efficiency (Kabak & Ornek, 2009). A number of sub-factors are considered, namely, the reliability of the production system, component commonality, skills of the corresponding staff in managing planning and scheduling activities, the existence of an effective time-fencing system, and the flexibility of the scheduling system (Pujawan & Kingsman, 2000;Pujawan, 2004;Kadipasaoglu and Sridharan, 1995;Zhao & Lee, 1993;Zhao, Xie, & Jiang, 2001;Inman & Gonsalvez, 1997, Pfeiffer, Kadar, & Monostori, 2007Bayraktar, Koh, Gunnasekaran, Sari, & Tatoglu et al, 2008).…”