This study investigates an optimization-based heuristic for the Robotic Cell Problem. This problem arises in automated cells and is a complex ‡ow shop problem with a single transportation robot and a blocking constraint. We propose an approximate decomposition algorithm. The proposed approach breaks the problem into two scheduling problems that are solved sequentially: a ‡ow shop problem with a...

This paper presents a new mathematical model for a production system through a scheduling problem considering a material handling system as an intelligent transportation system by automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The traditional systems cannot respond to the changes and customer’s demands and for this reason, a flexible production system is used. Therefore, for this purpose, automated transpor...

We study the coordinated scheduling problem of hybrid batch production on a single batching machine and two-stage transportation connecting the production, where there is a crane available in the first-stage transportation that transports jobs from the warehouse to the machine and there is a vehicle available in the second-stage transportation to deliver jobs from the machine to the customer. A...