Project Scheduling in Project-Oriented Production Systems.

Abstract

This thesis details a new method of scheduling project activities in project-oriented production system can be characterized as a part of the hierarchical planning and scheduling process in which an aggregate planning level allocates resources among projects of the production system and specifies major due dates of project executions. The goal of project scheduling is to minimize the project completion time subject to resource capacities and due dates which are specified by the aggregate planning level. Resource capacities for a particular project are time varying but inflexible at any particular time. The method of scheduling aims to reflect the characteristics of work in ship overhauls in a shipyard which is believed to be a typical example of a project oriented production system. The method is designed to be computationally feasible and managerially practical. Although there are various methods and techniques for project scheduling which have been proposed in the literature, none fulfills the needs posed by the shipyard's scheduling problem. Additional keywords: algorithms; resource management; ship overhauling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159980

Entities

People

  • A. Dincerler

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • California
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Pert
  • Production
  • Random Variables
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Simulations
  • Systems Engineering
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Operations Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design