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Math. Meth. Oper. Res. (2006) 63: 187189
DOI 10.1007/s00186-005-0048-y
Published online: 17 January 2006
Springer-Verlag 2006This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services by X. Chao and M. Pinedo from 1999. The
new version has been completely reorganized and extended in several directions.
As the title indicates, the application areas considered in the book can be divided
into two major parts: scheduling applications and services applications. This subdivision is rather useful since manufacturing and service models are very different.
Planning and scheduling in service industries is often more concerned with capacity and yield management and in contrast to manufacturing systems, the number
of resources may vary over time in service systems. As a consequence, algorithms
used in service settings tend to be rather different from those used in manufacturing
settings.The book consists of four parts and six appendices, and it also contains a
CD-ROM that gives several PowerPoint slides.Part I (Chapters 13) is of introductory nature and presents some preliminaries. Nine examples that illustrate the role of planning and scheduling in real life
situations are given. Chapters 2 and 3 describe the basic characteristics of the
manufacturing and service models.Part II (Chapters 48) covers five areas of planning and scheduling in manufacturing: project scheduling, machine scheduling, flexible assembly systems,
economic lot scheduling as well as planning and scheduling in supply chains. As
an example, the machine scheduling chapter (Chapter 5; 33 pages) gives first a
few comments on single and parallel machine problems. It presents a mathematical programming formulation for the job...