Flexibly serving a finite number of heterogeneous jobs in a tandem system

• Main Authors: LIM, Yun Fong, LU, Bingnan, WANG, Rowan, ZHANG, Wenjia
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Manufacturing; Service; Work station; Dynamic server assignment; Productivity; Operations and Supply Chain Management; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6547; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7546/viewcontent/FSFNHJTS_2_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many manufacturing and service systems require a finite number of heterogeneous jobs to be processed by two stations in tandem. Each station serves at most one job at a time and there is a finite buffer between the two stations. We consider two flexible servers that are cross-trained to work at both...