Key Terms
flow operations 578
routing 578
bottleneck 579
Gantt chart 579
load chart 579
progress chart 580
infinite loading 580
finite loading 580
forward scheduling 581
due date 581
backward scheduling 582
slack 582
input/output control 582
operation sequencing 584
queue 584
priority rule 584
local priority rule 584
global priority rule 584
makespan 586
job flow time 586
average number of jobs in the system 587
job lateness 587
job tardiness 587
Johnson's rule 591
optimized production technology (OPT) 593
nonbottleneck 593
capacity-constrained resource 593
throughput 594
transfer batch 595
process batch 595
theory of constraints (TOC) 596
internal resource constraint 596
market constraint 596
policy constraint 596
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