IE 428

Scheduling of Industrial Operations

Lecture Saturday 10:00-12:00 a.m.
Lecture and weekly exams Sunday 11:00-12:00 am
Tutorial Saturday 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Spring 2010


Instructor:
Ibrahim Alharkan Office: 2A 116/2 Phone: 467-6823
E-mail: imalhark@ksu.edu.sa Web Site: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/ialharkan/default.aspx

Teaching Assistance:
Eng. Yusuf Usmani Office: 2A 108/3
E-mail: yusmani@ksu.edu.sa Web Site: http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/yusmani/default.aspx
Purpose:
This course deals with various problems in the area of scheduling. It includes single machine, Parallel
machine, Flow shop, Open shop and Work Force Scheduling. Also, it introduces Project Management
which includes project planning, scheduling, and control. In more details, this course will introduce
the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). In addition,
Resource Leveling and Allocation, and Time and Cost Trade-Offs are presented.
Textbooks:
1) Operations Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services, Michael Pinedo and
Xiuli Chao, McGraw Hill 2000
2) Class notes
Grades:
Course will be determined by the following weights:
Attendance & participation 5%
Weekly Examination 20%
Mid-term Examination 20%
Term Project 15% (10% for report and 5% for presentation)
Final Exam 40%
Midterm Examination:
Mid-term exam will be on Saturday May 1
st
, 2010 from 10:00 am to 12:00 am.
Project:
A group of Three or Four students will submit a semester project. A one-page description of the
project is due during the 10
th
week of the semester (i.e. during the period 1
st
to 5
th
of May, 2010).
The project report in prescribed format will be due on Wednesday June 9
th
, 2010. Report should be
put in my mail box not later than 2:30 p.m. on the day of submission. For late reports marks will be
deducted accordingly.
All groups will present their project on Thursday June 10
th
, 2010 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Each student in every group must participate in the presentation otherwise zero grades will be given for
his presentation grade.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Scheduling Problem 2. Performance Measures of Scheduling
3. Single Machine Problem 4. Parallel Machine Problem
5. Flow Shop Problem 6. Open Shop Problem
7. J ob Shop Problem 8. Project Management
9. Project Scheduling (CPM and PERT) 10. Project Crashing (Time Cost Trade Offs)
11. Resource Constrained Scheduling
(Single vs Multiple Resource
Constraints)
12. Resource Leveling (Gantt Chart Analysis, Critical
Activities Shifting