HU, XIAOFENG; BAO, JINGSONG; JIN, YE - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 26 (2009) 06, pp. 817-829
This paper focuses on scheduling problem of a pipe-processing flowshop in a shipyard. The flowshop composes of five stages, including cutting, bending, welding preprocessing, argon-welding and CO2-welding, and each stage consists of identical parallel machines. Since thousands of pipes are...