Motivated by the application of scheduling a sequence of locks along a waterway, we consider a scheduling problem where multiple parallel batching machines are arranged in a sequence and process jobs that travel along this sequence. We investigate the computational complexity of this problem....

This article addresses multi-stage assembly flow shop for the first time. We propose several industrial applications of this system in which the opening stage has m parallel machines and the following stages (e.g. assembly, transportation, painting, packaging, etc.) complete and prepare products...