| Article ID: | iaor2002791 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 30 |
| Issue: | 8 |
| Start Page Number: | 689 |
| End Page Number: | 694 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1998 |
| Journal: | IIE Transactions |
| Authors: | Laporte Gilbert, Hertz A., Stecke K.E., Mittaz M. |
This article considers a tool loading problem whose objective is to minimize the number of tool switches over time in order to process several parts on a flexible machine. New heuristics are presented and compared. Some of these are shown to be superior to existing methods.