| Article ID: | iaor19911978 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 42 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 75 |
| End Page Number: | 82 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1991 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Widmer M. |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) are automated factories in which many different part types are produced simultaneously. The tool-loading problem now adds further to the delicate task of finding an optimal schedule for such systems. In this paper, a tabu search approach is developed to solve the job shop scheduling problem with tooling constraints.