Scheduling (production processes) Scheduling is the process of arranging, controlling and optimizing work and workloads in a production process or manufacturing process. Scheduling is used to allocate plant and machinery resources, plan human resources, plan production processes and purchase materials. It is an important tool for manufacturing and engineering, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a process. In manufacturing, the purpose of scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by telling a p
degree of freedom. n. 1. (General Physics) physics one of the minimum number of parameters necessary to describe a state or property of a system. 2. (General Physics) one of the independent components of motion (translation, vibration, and rotation) of an atom or molecule.
Another way of thinking about the restriction principle behind degrees of freedom is to imagine contingencies. For example, imagine you have four numbers (a, b, c and d) that must add up to a total of m; you are free to choose the first three numbers at random, but the fourth must be chosen so that it makes the total equal to m - thus your degree of freedom is three. See also: normal distribution. standard deviation