| Article ID: | iaor20011325 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Issue: | 3/5 |
| Start Page Number: | 109 |
| End Page Number: | 111 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Jia C.F. |
| Keywords: | flowshop |
We consider a two-machine flow shop with blocking, and n jobs with random processing times. The optimal sequences for minimizing the expected variation of waiting times until processing is started on the second machine are established when the jobs can be stochastically ordered.