Scheduling (production processes)

Scheduling is the process of arranging, controlling and optimizing work and workloads in a <a href="/facts/Production_(economics)/G5mF3WkI">production</a> process or <a href="/facts/Manufacturing/3qW7bcdy">manufacturing</a> process. Scheduling is used to allocate plant and machinery resources, plan <a href="/facts/Human_resources/vSYnWaKX">human resources</a>, plan production processes and <a href="/facts/Purchase/Vk9GPuLm">purchase</a> materials.
It is an important tool for <a href="/facts/Manufacturing/3qW7bcdy">manufacturing</a> and <a href="/facts/Engineering/RFVg8H3I">engineering</a>, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process. In manufacturing, the purpose of scheduling is to keep due dates of customers and then minimize the production time and costs, by telling a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment. Production scheduling aims to maximize the efficiency of the operation, utilize maximum resources available and reduce costs.
In some situations, scheduling can involve random attributes, such as random processing times, random due dates, random weights, and stochastic machine breakdowns. In this case, the scheduling problems are referred to as "<a href="/facts/Stochastic_scheduling/K3A2IeDC">stochastic scheduling</a>".

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