MANUFACTURING GLOSSARY / Finite-capacity scheduling
Finite-capacity scheduling: Finite-capacity production scheduling
Finite-capacity scheduling places work within the available time of constrained resources instead of assuming unlimited capacity.
What it means in manufacturing
Useful models can include equipment, labor skills, calendars, setup, tooling, alternate resources, and frozen work. The quality of the schedule depends on the accuracy and ownership of those inputs.
A question to use in evaluation
What happens to the plan when a critical machine, person, tool, or material is unavailable?
Keep the label and the evidence separate
Category terms describe a type of work; they do not establish what a specific software release, configuration, integration, or customer process can do. Test the proposed boundary with representative records, responsible owners, failure cases, and written acceptance criteria.
Your next step
Test the definition against your operation.
Use a real workflow to determine where the record lives, who decides, and what evidence the proposed scope must retain.