Section 13 Repetitive Production and Setups

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 Repetitive Production and Setups

So far we have accepted that a job has a duration of say, 7 hours, and we haven't worried about how the 7  hours has been estimated. Let's say the first job is to set up a work centre and then produce 500 of Product A. Work Centre 1 is an old machine which runs slowly, but is quick to set up, and Work Centre 2 is a new high speed machine, but the set ups take a long time. We would describe this in tables like this:

The left hand side of the schedule would look like this

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