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 …

Cluster tools are automated robotic manufacturing systems containing multiple computer-
controlled process modules. They have been increasingly used for wafer fabrication. This …

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 …

Scheduling problems have been investigated since the late fifties. Two types of applications
have mainly motivated research in this area: project planning and machine scheduling …

We address a robotic flow shop scheduling problem where two part types are processed on
each given set of dedicated machines. A single robot moving on a fixed rail transports one …

In this paper, we propose a model for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSSP) with
transportation constraints and bounded processing times. This is a NP hard problem …

In this survey we review the current complexity status of basic cyclic scheduling models. We
start with the formulations of three fundamental cyclic scheduling problems, namely the …

In semiconductor manufacturing, there are wafer fabrication processes with wafer revisiting.
Some of them must meet wafer residency time constraints. Taking atomic layer deposition …

For some wafer fabrication processes in cluster tools, eg, atomic layer deposition (ALD),
wafer revisiting is required. Typically, in such processes, wafers need to visit two …

We consider a generalized job-shop problem where the jobs additionally have to be
transported between the machines by a single transport robot. Besides transportation times …