Decision Support System for Scheduling Steel Fabrication Projects
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 128, Issue 5
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.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 128 • Issue 5 • October 2002
Pages: 392 - 399
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jul 21, 2000
Accepted: Sep 5, 2001
Published online: Sep 13, 2002
Published in print: Oct 2002
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