Abstract
A flexible manufacturing cell consisting of two machining centres, several automated storage/retrieval stations, and a mobile transporting robot is considered. The problem is to schedule jobs on machines so as to minimize the makespan, with the effects of transportation and set-ups to be taken into account. The problem is studied with the aid of a graph model, and an exact algorithm of cubic complexity is derived based on the Gilmore-Gomory algorithm for the travelling salesman problem.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1447-1455 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1995 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Flexible manufacturing systems
- Modelling
- Networks and graphs
- Scheduling
- Sequencing