There is an extensive literature on models that integrate scheduling with batching decisions.
Jobs may be batched if they share the same setup on a machine. Another reason for …

In many practical situations, batching of similar jobs to avoid set-ups is performed whilst
constructing a schedule. On the other hand, each job may consist of many identical items …

Project scheduling is concerned with single-item or small batch production where scarce
resources have to be allocated to dependent activities over time. Applications can be found …

Economies of scale are fundamental to manufacturing operations. With respect to
scheduling, this phenomenon manifests itself in efficiencies gained from grouping similar …

We consider a situation in which the manufacturing system is equipped with batch and
discrete processors. Each batch processor can process a batch (limited number) of jobs …

Manufacturing lead times are a critical measure of manufacturing performance that have not
received a great deal of attention in the literature. Lead times are affected by many factors …

We study a single-machine scheduling problem in which the items to be processed have to
be batched as well as sequenced. Since processed items become available in batches, flow …

Batching problems are combinations of sequencing and partitioning problems. For each job
sequence JS there is a partition of JS into batches with optimal value opt (JS) and one has to …

Machine sequencing formulations typically assume that the characteristics of the job set to
be processed are given. However, in many applications, jobs can be batched in different …

Joint production and distribution planning at the operational level has received a great deal
of attention from researchers. In most industries these processes are decoupled by means of …