The document discusses scheduling concepts and their applications in manufacturing and service industries. It aims to provide students with the necessary elements to design task scheduling strategies for any type of company considering competitiveness goals. Key concepts covered include: - Scheduling deals with allocating resources to tasks over time periods to optimize objectives like throughput or lateness. - Common scheduling problems involve a finite number of jobs and machines. Notation is introduced for processing times, release dates, due dates, weights. - Classes of schedules are defined including sequences, schedules, and policies. Common policies discussed are FIFO, SPT, EDD, and priority-based scheduling. - Examples are provided to illustrate scheduling different numbers of jobs on one,