Makespan and workstation utilization minimization in a flowshop with operations flexibility

Omega

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-282

  Ruiz Torres, Alex J ^a,b   Ho, Johnny C ^c   Ablanedo Rosas, José H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c Columbus State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Flowshop; Makespan; Operations flexibility; Scheduling; Sum of machine completion times; Workstation utilization

Indexed keywords

FLOW-SHOPS; MACHINE COMPLETION TIME; MAKESPAN; MINIMISATION; OPERATIONS FLEXIBILITY; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; SCHEDULING; SUM OF MACHINE COMPLETION TIME; TWO PHASE; WORKSTATION UTILIZATION;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 77957161753     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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