Talk:Job shop

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Technology This article is within the scope of WikiProject Technology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TechnologyWikipedia:WikiProject TechnologyTemplate:WikiProject TechnologyTechnology articles Engineering Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Engineering, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of engineering on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.EngineeringWikipedia:WikiProject EngineeringTemplate:WikiProject EngineeringEngineering articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. Systems Mid‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Systems, which collaborates on articles related to systems and systems science.SystemsWikipedia:WikiProject SystemsTemplate:WikiProject SystemsSystems articles Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is not associated with a particular field. Fields are listed on the template page.

Should this be moved to "Job shop"? Avocado 15:52, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

This entry seems to undesirably straddle two definitions for the term drawn from different domains. The first is a business meaning, according to which a job shop is a particular qualitative kind of factory. The second is an operations research scheduling meaning, according to which a "job shop" is a specific abstract model of manufacturing scheduling. It is this latter meaning that leads to the mentioning of NP hardness. A particular class of UK factory enterprise can't be NP hard! It's the abstract mathematical problem that's NP hard.Rpgoldman (talk) 19:45, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]