Business Administration Department Hosts a Workshop on Intelligent Scheduling Systems

On January 28, 2025, the Business Administration Department at Cihan University-Erbil hosted a workshop titled Intelligent Scheduling Systems for Complex Manufacturing Systems. This event, presented by Associate Professor Ammar Al-Bazi from the School of Business at Aston University, UK, provided valuable insights into the challenges and ways of scheduling in complex manufacturing environments.

The workshop began with the first session, which shared the real-life challenges faced in manufacturing scheduling and introduced intelligent algorithms to address them. The next session focused on the key features of scheduling algorithms, highlighting how they reduce setup times and efficiently allocate resources. It also underscored real-time data integration to dynamically adjust schedules and include outsourcing.

The workshop was followed by a live software demonstration in which the participants saw how scheduling issues, dynamic adjustments, and resource allocation were resolved. The session also presented Gantt chart visualizations for production schedules.

In the final session, the results from the live demonstration were reviewed, emphasizing improvements in terms of scheduling efficiency. This session also pointed out how the solutions could be scaled to different manufacturing environments.

The workshop concluded with an open Q&A session followed by a discussion session. During these sessions, the participants asked questions while gaining valuable insights into the future of intelligent scheduling in manufacturing.