Operations and shipment scheduling of a batch on a flexible machine

Operations Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 585-601

  Iravani, Seyed M R ^a   Buzacott, John A ^b   Posner, Morton J M ^c  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Production scheduling, approximation heuristic: flexible machine scheduling; Transportation, scheduling: integrated production and transportation model

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE MACHINES; MACHINING OPERATIONS; QUEUEING SETTINGS; SHIPMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; OUTSOURCING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PUBLIC POLICY; SCHEDULING; THEOREM PROVING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 4344705661     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.51.4.585.16095     Document Type: Article

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