INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, cilt.18, sa.1, ss.55-73, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
In this study, we address a job sequencing and tool switching problem arising in flexible manufacturing systems. We consider the single machine problem of minimizing total flow time. We prove that the problem is NP-hard in the strong sense and show that the tool switching problem is polynomially solvable for a given sequence.