Evaluating the performance of look-ahead policies for upstream serial processor with downstream batch processor serving incompatible job families and finite buffer sizes

• Main Authors: Tajan, John Benedict C., Sivakumar, Appa Iyer., Gershwin, Stanley B.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101805; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16902
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Batch processors can concurrently process more than one job. In wafer fabrication, the processing time of a batch is independent of batch size, and only jobs from the same job family can be batched together. We consider a two-stage subsystem of a wafer fabrication facility (wafer fab), comprised of...