Optimisation of flow-shop scheduling with batch processor and limited buffer

• Main Authors: Fu, Qing., Sivakumar, Appa Iyer., Li, Kunpeng.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101662; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16813
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper deals with a flow-shop scheduling problem with limited intermediate buffer. Jobs are grouped in incompatible job families. Each job has to be processed by a batch processor followed by a discrete processor in the same order. The batch processor can process several jobs simultaneously so t...