Lei, Weidong; Che, Ada; Chu, Chengbin - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 8 (2014) 2, pp. 143-167
This paper proposes a branch-and-bound algorithm for cyclic scheduling of a robotic flowshop with multiple part types in which the processing times of parts can vary within their given time windows. The problem consists of two types of sequencing issues: part input sequencing and robot move...