Article ID: | iaor20133932 |
Volume: | 206 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 115 |
End Page Number: | 145 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Fang Kan, Uhan Nelson, Zhao Fu, Sutherland John |
Keywords: | scheduling, programming: multiple criteria |
We study scheduling as a means to address the increasing energy concerns in manufacturing enterprises. In particular, we consider a flow shop scheduling problem with a restriction on peak power consumption, in addition to the traditional time‐based objectives. We investigate both mathematical programming and combinatorial approaches to this scheduling problem, and test our approaches with instances arising from the manufacturing of cast iron plates.