Article ID: | iaor1998729 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 77 |
End Page Number: | 82 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Suresh V. |
Keywords: | flowshop |
This paper considers a two-stage flow shop with multiple processors in each stage. The processors are of the unrelated type. A two-stage algorithm is developed to minimize the makespan. The working of the algorithm is investigated for various problem sizes and the computational experience is reported.