Abstract:Job oriented scheduling (JOS) has been the most commonly used technique in actual job shop scheduling. It loads jobs one by one onto machines. In this paper, the authors present a fast scheduling algorithm of computer-based JOS system, the algorithm assigns feasible schedule start and finish times to the operations of a job by loading them forward or backward onto the capacity constrained machines. The computation time to find the feasible time slot on the machine is reduced by log and modify each machine’s feasible time slot. Thus, the computational efficiency is substantially improved. Experimental testing shows that the algorithm has significant merits for large size problems.