A survey of machine scheduling problems with blocking and no-wait in process

NG Hall, C Sriskandarajah - Operations research, 1996 - pubsonline.informs.org
An important class of machine scheduling problems is characterized by a no-wait or
blocking production environment, where there is no intermediate buffer between machines …

Design and operational issues in AGV-served manufacturing systems

T Ganesharajah, NG Hall, C Sriskandarajah - Annals of operations …, 1998 - Springer
Abstract Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems are already in widespread use and their
importance for material handling is expected to grow rapidly. The advantages that such …

[图书][B] Planning and scheduling in manufacturing and services

M Pinedo - 2005 - Springer
This book is an outgrowth of an earlier text that appeared in 1999 under the title “Operations
Scheduling with Applications in Manufacturing and Services”, coauthored with Xiuli Chao …

Sequencing and scheduling in robotic cells: Recent developments

M Dawande, HN Geismar, SP Sethi… - Journal of …, 2005 - Springer
A great deal of work has been done to analyze the problem of robot move sequencing and
part scheduling in robotic flowshop cells. We examine the recent developments in this …

Cyclic scheduling in robotic flowshops

Y Crama, V Kats, J Van de Klundert… - Annals of operations …, 2000 - Springer
Fully automated production cells consisting of flexible machines and a material handling
robot have become commonplace in contemporary manufacturing systems. Much research …

Cyclic scheduling of identical parts in a robotic cell

Y Crama, J Van De Klundert - Operations Research, 1997 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider a robotic flowshop in which one type of product is to be repeatedly produced,
and where transportation of the parts between the machines is performed by a robot. The …

[HTML][HTML] Parallel machine scheduling with a common server

NG Hall, CN Potts, C Sriskandarajah - Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper considers the nonpreemptive scheduling of a given set of jobs on several
identical, parallel machines. Each job must be processed on one of the machines. Prior to …

Combinatorial optimization models for production scheduling in automated manufacturing systems

Y Crama - European Journal of Operational Research, 1997 - Elsevier
Production planning and scheduling models arising in automated manufacturing
environments exhibit several features not encountered in models developed for traditional …

[图书][B] Throughput optimization in robotic cells

MW Dawande, HN Geismar, SP Sethi… - 2007 - books.google.com
Modern manufacturing processes have thoroughly incorporated automation and repetitive
processing. The use of computer-controlled material handling systems to convey raw …

An efficient mixed integer programming model based on timed Petri nets for diverse complex cluster tool scheduling problems

C Jung, TE Lee - IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cluster tools are automated production cells which are largely used for semiconductor
manufacturing. They consist of several processing modules (PMs) and a transportation …