a three stage production system is considered in this paper. there are two stages to fabricate and ready the parts and an assembly stage to assembly the parts and complete the products in this system. suppose that a number of products of different kinds are ordered. each product is assembled with a set of several parts. at first the parts are produced in the first stage with parallel machines a...

This paper studies a combinatorial optimization problem which is obtained by combining the two-machine flow shop scheduling problem and the shortest path problem. The objective of the obtained problem is to select a subset of jobs constitutes a feasible solution to the shortest path problem, and to execute the selected jobs on two-machine flow shop to minimize the makespan. We argue that this p...

The distributed blocking flow shop scheduling problem (DBFSP) allows modeling the scheduling process in companies with more than one factory. It configures production systems as flow shop lines where the blocking constraint must be considered. To the best of our knowledge, this variant of the distributed permutation flow shop scheduling problem has not been studied. In this working paper, we sh...

In shop scheduling, several applications exist where it is required that some components perform consecutively. We refer to no-idle schedules if machines are required to operate with no inserted idle time and no-wait schedules if tasks cannot wait between the end of an operation and the start of the following one. We consider here no-idle/no-wait shop scheduling problems with makespan as perfor...

Coordination plays crucial role in supply chain scheduling. In this paper, we extend the existing body of literature on supply chain scheduling by representing the robust schedule coordination approach. A hybrid discrete/continuous flow shop supply chain with job shop processes at each supplier stage is studied with dynamic optimal control models. We consider operations, channel, resource and f...

Abstract—This paper aims to present non-population search algorithms called tabu search (TS), simulated annealing (SA) and variable neighborhood search (VNS) to minimize the total cost of capacitated MRP problem in multi-stage assembly flow shop with two alternative machines. There are three main steps for the algorithm. Firstly, an initial sequence of orders is constructed by a simple due date...

Assembly job shop problem (AJSP) is an extension of classical job shop problem (JSP). AJSP first starts with a JSP and appends an assembly stage after job completion. Lot Streaming (LS) technique is defined as the process of splitting lots into sub-lots such that successive operation can be overlapped. In this paper, the previous study of LS to AJSP will be extended by introducing resource cons...

We consider a three-stage dynamic flexible flow shop scheduling problem in which jobs of multiple types arrive dynamically over time, a quality feedback mechanism is present, and the setup timing and the process defect rate are closely related. At each machine in the second stage, a sequence-independent setup operation is necessary to changeover job types. Once a setup is done for a job type at...