Article ID: | iaor20041565 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 135 |
End Page Number: | 169 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
Journal: | Journal of Scheduling |
Authors: | Timkovsky Vadim G., Middendorf Martin |
Keywords: | production |
This paper considers problems of finding non-periodic and periodic schedules in a cycle shop which is a special case of a job shop but an extension of a flow shop. The cycle shop means the machine environment where all jobs have to pass the machines over the same route as in a flow shop but some of the machines in the route can be met more than once. We propose a classification of cycle shops and show that recently studied reentrant flow shops, robotic flow shops, loop reentrant flow shops and