This research is concerned with the problem of assigning due dates in a job shop. In particular, the objective is to evaluate various combinations of due date assignment rules including Reiter's method.
The due date assignment rules are derivations or extensions of due date assignment rules found in job shop scheduling literature. The performance of the due date rules are measured in terms of mean makespan and six lateness and tardiness criteria where the expected capacity utilization was eighty nine percent.
To implement this experiment, a simulation model based on sequence programming, a heuristic scheduling technique, was developed by using DESIGNAID, a structured analysis tool.