Proposal of a performance measurement system for the evaluation of scheduling solutions

Production planning and control (PP&C) is increasingly becoming a critical activity. In particular, scheduling decisions, which are the final temporal decision-making phase where industrial and supply chain managers could act for maintaining satisfactory production system performances, turn out to be more and more critical. Industrial practitioners are in trouble in understanding the best scheduling policy for their plants, also because they are not able to measure the obtained results and to compare it with other policies. In such a context, the paper illustrates the implementation of a wider performance measurement system for the evaluation of scheduling solutions (PMSESS). PMSESS is currently under development in a large initiative, the special interest group 4 on benchmarking and performance measurement of scheduling solutions, established in the context of the IMS NoE community.