The scheduling of flow shops with multiple parallel machines per stage, usually referred to
as the hybrid flow shop (HFS), is a complex combinatorial problem encountered in many …

mnolrllorlng Page 1 PERGAMON Computers & Industrial Engineering 37 (1999) 57-61
oornlaUlior.o indullrlel mnolrllorlng ABSTRACT HYBRID FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING: A …

This book is a continuation of Scheduling in Computer and Manufacturing Sys tems 1, two
editions of which have received kind acceptance of a wide readership. As the previous …

We consider an assembly line with m stations in series having finite capacity buffers.
Blocking occurs when buffers are full. There are M different types of products to be …

This paper reviews the literature related to the class of scheduling problems that involve
sequence-dependent setup times (costs), an important consideration in many practical …

The sequencing of a flow shop with multiple processors at each stage is a general case of
the flow shop problem. It involves sequencing n jobs in a flow shop where, for at least one …

Much of the research on operations scheduling problems has either ignored setup times or
assumed that setup times on each machine are independent of the job sequence. This …

This paper examines scheduling in flexible flow lines with sequence-dependent setup times
to minimize makespan. This type of manufacturing environment is found in industries such …

In this paper we address a scheduling problem taken from a label sticker manufacturing
company. The production system is a two-stage hybrid flow shop with the characteristics of …

For the past three decades or so the flexible flow shop (FFS) scheduling problem has
attracted many researchers. Numerous research articles have been published on this topic …