The smart factory has been widely applied in manufacturing enterprises to meet dynamics in
the global market. Bottleneck-based dispatching method (BDM) is a promising approach to …

In this paper we address a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem considering the
minimization of the sum of the total earliness and tardiness penalties. This problem is proven …

A flexible flow shop is a generalized flow shop with multiple machines in some stages. This
system is fairly common in flexible manufacturing and in process industry. In most practical …

Bottlenecks in manufacturing systems may significantly reduce their efficiency and
productivity. Therefore, bottleneck analysis is a consolidated topic in Industrial Engineering …

This paper presents an efficient heuristic method to minimize total flow time in no-wait flow
shop scheduling. It is based on the assumption that the priority of a job in the initial …

No-wait flow shop production has been widely applied in manufacturing. However,
minimization of total completion time for no-wait flow shop production is NP-complete …

This study developed a bottleneck-based heuristic (BBFFL) to solve a flexible flow line
problem with a bottleneck stage, where unrelated parallel machines exist in all the stages …

Cooperative Dispatching is a real-time scheduling methodology, which consults
downstream machines before making a job dispatching decision on any given machine …

针对以最小化时间表长为目标的复杂混合流水车间调度问题, 提出了一种将机器布局和工件加工
时间特征紧密结合的启发式算法. 首先, 充分利用各阶段平均机器负荷一般不相等的特点确定 …

In this paper, we present a constructive heuristic to minimize total flow time criterion for the
well-known NP-hard no-wait flow shop scheduling problem. It is based on the assumption …