Buddala, Raviteja; Mahapatra, Siba Sankar - In: Journal of industrial engineering international 14 (2018) 3, pp. 555-570
Flexible flow shop (or a hybrid flow shop) scheduling problem is an extension of classical flow shop scheduling problem. In a simple flow shop configuration, a job having ‘g’ operations is performed on ‘g’ operation centres (stages) with each stage having only one machine. If any stage...