Product Scheduling in a Flowshop Cell

A Two-Stage Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling Problem with Serial Batching

In this paper the problem of serial batch scheduling in a two-stage hybrid flow shop environment with minimizing Makesapn is studied. In serial batching it is assumed that jobs in a batch are processed serially, and their completion time is defined to be equal to the finishing time of the last job in the batch. The analysis and implementation of the prohibited transference of jobs among the mac...

A Simple No - Wait Flowshop Scheduling Heuristicfor

On Solving Flowshop Scheduling Problems

This paper proposes two variants of heuristic algorithms to solve the classic permutation flowshop scheduling problem. Both algorithms are simple and very efficient. The first algorithm is a constructive heuristic which builds the optimal schedule of jobs on the basis of a selective-greedy process. To escape the trap of local optimum points, for the second heuristic algorithm a stochastic featu...

Two-Machine Flowshop Scheduling with Conditional

This paper considers a flowshop scheduling problem with a waiting time constraint imposed to restrict the processing of the two operations of each job. If the second operation of a job cannot start within a specified waiting time after the completion of its first operation, then an extra processing time will be incurred for its second operation as a penalty. We first show that is even a greatly...

Six Decades of Flowshop Scheduling Research

In the field of scheduling, the flowshop problems have been thoroughly studied over the last six decades. In this paper we propose a concise overview of flowshop scheduling techniques evolved during this period. We surveyed the exact, heuristics and metaheuristics methods for solving various flowshop scheduling problems. As a result various optimization techniques, solution procedures are avail...