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Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop

In: Flow Shop Scheduling

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  • Hamilton Emmons

    (Case Western Reserve University)

  • George Vairaktarakis

    (Case Western Reserve University)

Abstract

We define the types of transfer lags, positive and negative, between stages of a flow shop, and discuss applications (transport times, nonbottleneck machines, manufacturing cells, batch transfers, setup and teardown times, master-slave systems, etc.). We show that the twomachine makespan problem is NP-hard, but that a variety of models can be efficiently solved using the Modified Johnson’s Rule and its extensions when our search is restricted to permutation schedules. We extend the analysis to the two-stage hybrid shop, and then to the m machine shop, for which bounds and heuristics are given. Further results involving transfer lags are given in Chap. 4.

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  • Hamilton Emmons & George Vairaktarakis, 2013. "Transfer Lags in the Flow Shop," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Flow Shop Scheduling, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 67-96, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-1-4614-5152-5_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5152-5_3
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