Batch availability model, Batching and Scheduling, Completely-Knocked-Down. - This doctoral thesis introduces the problem of batching and scheduling non-permutation flow shops with m=2 batch processing machines in sequence and stage specific incompatible job families. Batches are builded at each...

Purpose: Existing productivity improvements activities such as inventory buffer, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and total productive maintenance (TPM) do not analytically associate the throughput shortage with process parameters. The paper aims to develop and test an integrated model to...