Article ID: | iaor19952087 |
Country: | Switzerland |
Volume: | 57 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 217 |
End Page Number: | 232 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Levner Eugene, Kogan Konstantin, Levin Ilya |
The paper deals with the scheduling of a robotic cell in which jobs are processed on two tandem machines. The job transportation between the machines is done by a transportation robot. The robotic cell has limitations on the intermediate space between the machines for storing the work-in-process. What complicates the scheduling problem is that the loading/unloading operation times are non-negligible. Given the total number of operations