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  A scheduling problem in glass manufacturing
 
 
Title: A scheduling problem in glass manufacturing
Author: He, David W.
Kusiak, Andrew
Artiba, A.
Appeared in: IIE transactions
Paging: Volume 28 (1996) nr. 2 pages 129-139
Year: 1996-02-01
Contents: In this paper, a production scheduling problem in glass manufacturing is studied. The production facility consists of multiple identical production lines and each production line includes a number of serially arranged machines. The production is characterized by semi-ordered processing times in each product family, and the last machine in each production line is a bottleneck machine. Significant changeover times are required when products of different families are produced on a production line. The scheduling problem was modeled as a parallel no-delay flowshop scheduling problem (PNDFSP). The PNDFSP combines the parallel machine scheduling problem (PMSP) with the no-delay flowshop scheduling problem (NDFSP). While PMSP and NDFSP have received considerable attention in the literature, PNDFSP has not been well studied. A mixed-integer programming formulation is developed and an efficient heuristic algorithm is proposed. The sequential heuristic algorithm considers simultaneously the line changeover time, no-delay effect, and line utilization in assigning product families to the production lines. The computational results are reported.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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