Innovative Way of Optimizing the Manufacturing Processes on Parallel Production Lines in SME

The goal of the paper is to present a new way for scheduling the processes within and not limited to manufacturing companies. The aim of the paper is to offer the management of SMEs a revolutionary way for increasing the company’s productivity using a better planning and usage of the available resources. Author’s sequencing rules are presented together with their implementation methodologies and then are put to work into a Romanian middle size manufacturing company. Obtained data is statistically worked and conclusions are drawn. The paper is part of the authors’ yet not published work and represents partial results of their research in the field of Operational and Supply Chain Management.