Chapter 11 Multi-Level Scheduling
This chapter will discuss scheduling techniques for multi-level scheduling; the following chapter will cover additional complexities like tanks and specific flow paths between operations and equipment.
The first consideration in multi-level scheduling is to decide which of the levels or steps in the process should be scheduled. For example, Blue Lakes has three levels of the process that appear in the value stream map, the spice room, and liquid prep, the mixing tanks, and the packaging operations.
Starting upstream, the spice room and liquid prep can prepare whatever spices and liquids are needed as long as they receive the mixing schedule with enough advance notice to prepare ...
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