Karumanasseri, G and Abourizk, S (2002) Decision support system for scheduling steel fabrication projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(5), pp. 392-399. ISSN 0733-9364
Abstract
One of the most important and difficult problems faced by the steel fabrication industry is the planning and scheduling of shop activities. Competitive pressures force fabricators to disrupt schedules in progress to accommodate frequent requests from key customers for changes in design and/or delivery schedules. Capacity management is a complex problem and is key to proper management of manufacturing/fabrication activities. This paper presents a decision support system for planning and scheduling of steel fabrication projects. Although the immediate application of this approach is steel fabrication, its fundamental heuristic approach can be applied to any construction job shop scheduling exercise. Its main advantage over techniques such as CPM is that it is resource driven; its advantages over simulation techniques are its simplicity and overall schedule development time.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | decision support systems; project planning; scheduling; steel fibers |
| Index terms: | decision support, project planning, heuristic, scheduling, exercise, fabrication |
| Subjects: | risk assessment, operations research, decision analysis, health behaviours and lifestyles, manufacturing engineering, control systems |
| Topics: | Health and Safety, Time Control, Risk Management, Engineering Principles, Project Management |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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