15.0 Learning Outcomes

At the end of this chapter, students will be able to:

• Explain the importance of job scheduling in operations management.
• Identify different job scheduling rules and their characteristics (e.g., FCFS, SPT, EDD, CR).
• Apply various job scheduling rules to a given set of jobs and calculate performance metrics.
• Compare the performance of different scheduling rules based on the calculated metrics.
• Determine appropriate scheduling rules for different operational objectives (e.g., minimizing flow time, minimizing tardiness).
• Analyze the impact of job sequencing on waiting times and overall efficiency.
• Explain how to schedule jobs on multiple machines.
• Apply techniques for assigning resources (e.g., cranes) to tasks (e.g., construction sites) to optimize allocation.