Abstract
This study addresses cyclic scheduling in robotic flowshops with bounded work-in-process (WIP) levels. The objective is to minimize the cycle time or, equivalently, to maximize the throughput, under the condition that the WIP level is bounded from above by a given integer number. We present several strongly polynomial algorithms for the 2-cyclic robotic flowshop scheduling problems for various WIP levels.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Naval Research Logistics |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2011 |
Keywords
- complexity
- multi-cyclic scheduling
- no-wait
- polynomial algorithms
- robotic scheduling
- work-in-process