Article ID: | iaor19981678 |
Country: | Japan |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 356 |
End Page Number: | 372 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan |
Authors: | Kise Hiroshi, Karuno Yoshiyuki, Cheng Jin-Liang |
Keywords: | manufacturing industries, optimization, production: FMS |
This paper considers a scheduling problem of minimizing the maximum completion time (i.e., the makespan) for an automated flowshop manufacturing system such as FMS which consists of