TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyclic scheduling in robotic flowshops
AU - Crama, Y.
AU - Kats, V.
AU - Van De Klundert, J.
AU - Levner, E.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Fully automated production cells consisting of flexible machines and a material handling robot have become commonplace in contemporary manufacturing systems. Much research on scheduling problems arising in such cells, in particular in flowshop-like production cells, has been reported recently. Although there are many differences between the models, they all explicitly incorporate the interaction between the materials handling and the classical job processing decisions, since this interaction determines the efficiency of the cell. This paper surveys cyclic scheduling problems in robotic flowshops, models for such problems, and the complexity of solving these problems, thereby bringing together several streams of research that have by and large ignored one another, and describing and establishing links with other scheduling problems and combinatorial topics.
AB - Fully automated production cells consisting of flexible machines and a material handling robot have become commonplace in contemporary manufacturing systems. Much research on scheduling problems arising in such cells, in particular in flowshop-like production cells, has been reported recently. Although there are many differences between the models, they all explicitly incorporate the interaction between the materials handling and the classical job processing decisions, since this interaction determines the efficiency of the cell. This paper surveys cyclic scheduling problems in robotic flowshops, models for such problems, and the complexity of solving these problems, thereby bringing together several streams of research that have by and large ignored one another, and describing and establishing links with other scheduling problems and combinatorial topics.
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U2 - 10.1023/a:1018995317468
DO - 10.1023/a:1018995317468
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AN - SCOPUS:0034367676
SN - 0254-5330
VL - 96
SP - 97
EP - 124
JO - Annals of Operations Research
JF - Annals of Operations Research
IS - 1-4
ER -