Article ID: | iaor20083028 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 2774 |
End Page Number: | 2789 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2007 |
Journal: | Computers and Operations Research |
Authors: | Akturk M. Selim, Gurel Sinan |
Keywords: | heuristics |
When the processing times of jobs are controllable, selected processing times affect both the manufacturing cost and the scheduling performance. A well-known example for such a case that this paper specifically deals with is the turning operation on a CNC machine. Manufacturing cost of a turning operation is a nonlinear convex function of its processing time. We also know that scheduling decisions are quite sensitive to the processing times. Therefore, this paper considers minimizing total manufacturing cost (