Article ID: | iaor20032311 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 425 |
End Page Number: | 434 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2003 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Guinet Alain, Saadani Nour El Houda, Moalla Mohamed |
Keywords: | flowshop |
The three stage no-idle flow-shop configuration, where machines work continuously without idle intervals, is an interesting manufacturing environment in many industries. Few researches have investigated this type of systems. The idle characteristic is a very strong constraint and it affects seriously the value of makespan (