Article ID: | iaor19982216 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 89 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 355 |
End Page Number: | 365 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1996 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Herroelen Willy S., Demeulemeester Erik L. |
Keywords: | project management |
The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how modelling ideas and solution procedures, borrowed from the field of generalized resource-constrained project scheduling, can be used to formulate and solve several types of production scheduling problems involving sequence-independent setup times as well as process and transfer batches. The computational results provide useful insight in the trade-offs that do exist between the computational effort required and the size of the process and transfer batches used.