We consider the two-machine no-wait flow shop problem with separable setup times and single server side constraints, and makespan as the performance measure. This problem is strongly NP-hard. A mathematical model of the problem is developed and a number of propositions are proven for the special...

The paper considers a flowshop scheduling problem of a manufacturing cell that contains families of jobs whose setup times are dependent on the manufacturing sequence of the families. Two objectives, namely the makespan and total flow time, have been considered simultaneously in this work. Since...

In this paper, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulations of the deadlock-free job shop scheduling problem are proposed. The presence of buffer space with limited capacity is considered. This research work also proposes a novel operations insertion algorithm based on the rank matrix (or Latin...

The paper considers a flowshop scheduling problem of a manufacturing cell that contains families of jobs whose setup times are dependent on the manufacturing sequence of the families. Two objectives, namely the makespan and total flow time, have been considered simultaneously in this work. Since...

In this paper, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulations of the deadlock-free job shop scheduling problem are proposed. The presence of buffer space with limited capacity is considered. This research work also proposes a novel operations insertion algorithm based on the rank matrix (or Latin...