Article ID: | iaor200970881 |
Country: | France |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 421 |
End Page Number: | 436 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
Authors: | Dridi Najoua, Hadda Hatem, Hajri-Gabouj Sonia |
In this paper we deal with the two-stage hybrid flow shop with dedicated machines. The objective is to minimize the makespan. We first provide some basic properties, a set of lower bounds and two polynomial cases. We then propose a new heuristic based on the established properties. The heuristic tries to sequence jobs in such a way that the obtained makespan corresponds to the lower bound. In the last part, we present the results of a computational experience comparing our heuristic with another heuristic found in the literature. The analysis of those results allows us to appreciate the quality of our proposition.