| Article ID: | iaor19981668 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 86 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 491 |
| End Page Number: | 502 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1995 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Sethi Suresh, Proth Jean-Marie, Chu Chengbin |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
A heuristic procedure is developed for minimizing makespan in flow-shop scheduling problems. In comparison with current algorithms, our algorithm seems to result in an improved makespan with a small additional computational effort. An algorithm is also developed to minimize the required number of pallets for a given makespan.