LOT STREAMING IN A 2-STAGE FLOW-SHOP WITH SET-UP, PROCESSING AND REMOVAL TIMES SEPARATED

CETINKAYA F.

JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, vol.45, no.12, pp.1445-1455, 1994 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 45 Issue: 12
  • Publication Date: 1994
  • Doi Number: 10.1057/jors.1994.221
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.1445-1455
  • Keywords: CHANGEOVER TIMES, FLOW SHOPS, LOT STREAMING, SCHEDULING, TRANSFER BATCHES
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

This paper considers the job (lot) scheduling problem for two-stage flow shops in which the movement of transfer batches (sublots) from the first stage to the next are allowed. Set-up, processing and removal times are considered as separable and independent of the order in which jobs are processed at any of two stages. An optimal transfer batch sizing and scheduling algorithm which has an objective of minimizing the maximum flow time (makespan) is developed and demonstrated by a numerical example.