| Article ID: | iaor19952082 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 11 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Baker Kenneth R. |
| Keywords: | flowshop |
The lot streaming model can sometimes be analyzed as a variation of the basic flow shop model. In this paper, the authors consider the lot streaming model with setup times, transfer lots of size one, and makespan objective. They show how to harness existing theory for time lags and setup times in the two-machine flow shop to analyze the lot streaming case. Extensions to more than two machines are also discussed.