Article ID: | iaor20031860 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 142 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 309 |
End Page Number: | 320 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Gallo Giorgio, Scutell Maria Grazia |
Keywords: | production, heuristics |
An important class of problems in manufacturing are those in which there is an item to be produced, a set of components which can be assembled together to produce the item, and a set of identical machines capable to perform the assembly operations. After discussing several optimality criteria, we address the problem in which we want to select a sequence of assembly operations (assembly plan), and schedule the selected operations on the machines, in such a way to minimize the makespan. This problem generalizes