| Article ID: | iaor2000836 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 139 |
| End Page Number: | 145 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Steiner George, Chen Jiang |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
Lot streaming is the process of splitting a job or lot to allow overlapping between successive operations in a multistage production system. This use of transfer lots usually results in a shorter makespan for the corresponding schedule. In this paper, we present two quickly obtainable approximations of very good quality for the discrete lot streaming problem in flow shops.