No-wait flow shop production has been widely applied in manufacturing. However, minimization of total completion time for no-wait flow shop production is NP-complete. Consequently, achieving good effectiveness and efficiency is a challenge in no-wait flow shop scheduling, where effectiveness...

Operating room (OR) scheduling is a critical factor affecting overall hospital performance. We examine OR scheduling from two perspectives. In the first perspective we propose a scheme for OR block scheduling that uses a heuristic developed for a three-machine flow shop where the three phases of...

Even though research in flow shop production scheduling has been carried out for many decades, there is still a gap between research and application — especially in manufacturing paradigms such as one-of- a-kind production (OKP) that intensely challenges real time adaptive production...

We propose a trade-off balancing (TOB) heuristic in a no-wait flow shop to minimize the weighted sum of maximum completion time (Cmax) and total completion time (TCT) based on machine idle times. We introduce a factorization scheme to construct the initial sequence based on current and future...