Determination of inter-stage idle times in scheduling design of a three stage zero wait batch process

• Main Authors: A., Shafeeq, M.I.A., Mutalib, K.A., Amminudin, A., Muhammad
• Format: Citation Index Journal
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/520/1/paper.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-46149105443&partnerID=40&md5=d893095a8cb57e5c30b7261fa25aa94d; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/520/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

The present research proposes a novel approach based on matrix to determine the makespan of a batch process adopting zero wait transfer policy. The proposed approach uses simple mathematical formulae, applied on a matrix representing the batch process recipes according to a selected production...