A review of flowshop scheduling research with setup times

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 262-282

  Cheng, T C Edwin ^c   Gupta, Jatinder N D ^a   Wang, Guoqing ^b  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Flowshop scheduling; Planning and control; Problem complexity and classification; Review of solution procedures; Setup time influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000647451     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2000.tb00137.x     Document Type: Review

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