Dawande, Milind; Pinedo, Michael; Sriskandarajah, Chelliah - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 11 (2009) 2, pp. 210-228
We address the scheduling of operations in a robotic cell that produces multiple part-types. The objective is to obtain a cyclic schedule--a sequence of robot moves and an ordering of the parts--that minimizes the long-run average time to produce a part or, equivalently, maximizes the...