finite capacity scheduling; Management Affairs

If you’re in management, you’ll want to learn about finite capacity scheduling models and how you can increase your output in your production cycles. Efficiency is indeed the name of the game when it comes to production and low costs. Therefore, I recommend the book; Finite Capacity Scheduling: Management, Selection, and Implementation (Oliver Wight Manufacturing) by Gerhard Plenert.

I believe this book should be required reading for all MBA students and taught as part of the course curriculum at the best business schools. I think you should also read the book on finite capacity programming, absolutely if you are serious about efficiencies in your company, and indeed the knowledge will be very useful to you? I have also considered the fact that they should use it to teach MBA students at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton as well. These finite capacity scheduling management theories and practices I believe can be applied to other industries as well; like car wash production lines, farm models, service business and many other things too; everything from HMO patient operations to searches for survivors in search and rescue grids.

When you consider how we can keep margins shrinking in manufacturing, it’s amazing that things are still working. However, if you follow finite-capacity programming models, you’ll see that it’s possible and makes sense too. Consider all this in 2006.