Flexible Flow Shops

Hamilton Emmons () and George Vairaktarakis ()
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Hamilton Emmons: Case Western Reserve University
George Vairaktarakis: Case Western Reserve University

Chapter Chapter 8 in Flow Shop Scheduling, 2013, pp 247-268 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We introduce four types of flexibility encountered in a flow shop: job routing through a hybrid shop, machine assignment, allocation of a scarce resource over the tasks to speed up processing, and the composition of daily production batches to satisfy requirements for a finite set of parts over a finite horizon. Two forms of machine flexibility are considered: multitasking where a machine can do more than one task of a job, and multiprocessing where several machines may combine to process a task. In each case, we present some or all of the following: complexity results, solution algorithms or heuristics with worst case performance, and assessments on the benefits of flexibility.

Keywords: Parallel Machine; Idle Time; Flow Shop; Part Type; Total Processing Time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5152-5_8

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