If you are in management it behooves you 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 output and low costs. I therefore recommend the book; Finite Capacity Scheduling : Management, Selection, and Implementation (Oliver Wight Manufacturing) by Gerhard Plenert.
I believe that this book should be required reading for all MBA Students and taught as part of the course curriculum at the top business schools. Do I believe you should also read the book on Finite Capacity Scheduling, absolutely if you are serious about the efficiencies in your company and indeed the knowledge will serve you very well. I also have considered the fact that they should use it to teach MBA Students at Yale, Harvard, Stanford and Wharton too. These theories and management practices of finite capacity scheduling I believe can also be applied to other industries; such as car washing production lines, agriculture models, services businesses and a host of other things as well; everything from HMO patient operations to search and rescue grid searches for survivors.
If you consider how we can keep up the smaller and smaller margins in the manufacturing sector it is amazing things still work. Yet if you follow the finite capacity scheduling models you will see it is possible and it makes sense too. Consider all this in 2006.
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