Reading series
Plans Under Pressure
Consider the difference between a mathematically attractive schedule and a workable decision under changing conditions.
Chapters, in reading order
- 01
The fastest way to recover may begin with the schedule you already have.
- 02
Why the Best Schedule May Not Be the Most Useful
A schedule can improve on paper and still disrupt the operation it was meant to help.
- 03
A Good Production Schedule Is More Than a Gantt Chart
The bars show when work happens. The difficult questions are why it happens in that order, and what changing the order would cost.
- 04
Cost, speed, emissions, fairness and service rarely improve together. Multi-objective optimization reveals the choices between them.
- 05
The best plan for a future that never happens
An optimal plan can depend on a forecast that turns out to be wrong. Optimization under uncertainty asks a more useful question.