A Comparison of Job Shop Dispatching Rules Using a Total Cost Criterion

• Main Authors: Yang, Kum Khiong, Sum, C. C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1994
• Subjects: Scheduling; Production system; Job shop; Comparative study; Simulation; Dispatching rule; Business
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2272; https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=5785364&site=ehost-live
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent research shows existing dispatching rules, proposed for minimizing the total cost, do not perform better than the Critical Ratio rule. New dispatching rules are, therefore, proposed in this paper and are shown to perform significantly better than existing dispatching rules. Under certain cond...