Your task is to identify different types of scheduling problems in the
real world. The list could easily fill a page and take several minutes to
develop—the point being I want to get each of you thinking about the tremendous variety
and prevalence of scheduling applications in existence, no matter in which industry
they will eventually work. Examples include factories (jobs on a machine, purchases and deliveries, workforce),
universities (assigning professors to classes, assigning rooms to classes, setting
registration priorities), airlines (flights, connections, crews), hospitals
(operating rooms, outpatient procedures, nurses), and the National Football
League (games, referees).


Create your own list with examples. Discuss the relevance of effective scheduling to achieve excellence in operations management.