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| The assigning of jobs to work or processing centers. |
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| A system that allows operations personnel to manage facility work flows. |
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| Cards that control the amount of work in a work center, aiding input-output control. |
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| Planning charts used to schedule resources and allocate time. |
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| A special class of linear programming models that involves assigning tasks or jobs to resources. |
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| Determining the order in which jobs should be done at each work center. |
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| Rules used to determine the sequence of jobs in process-oriented facilities. |
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| A sequencing rule that is an index number computed by dividing the time remaining until due date by the work time remaining. |
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| An approach that minimizes the total time for sequencing a group of jobs through two work centers while minimizing total idle time in the work centers. |
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| Finite capacity scheduling (FCS) |
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| Computerized short-term scheduling that overcomes the disadvantage of rule-based systems by providing the user with graphical interactive computing. |
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| The time between the release of a job to a work center until the job is finished. |
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