Parallel machine structure is very common in modern production systems. Its performance sometimes has a decisive impact on the whole productivity. In this paper, we consider a parallel-machine scheduling problem where each machine is subject to periodic maintenance. Instead of assuming all the...

Job shop scheduling with a bank of machines in parallel is important from both theoretical and practical points of review. Here we focus on a flexible job shop scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan in a two-center job shop, where the first center consists of one machine and the second...

Flow shop scheduling is common in modern lean production systems. In practice, jobs in flow shops can arrive at irregular times. However, scheduling that considers such irregularity has not been adequately investigated in the literature. In this paper, we examine the scheduling of n-jobs in an...

Alternative machines assignment, machine sharing, and inter-cell movements are very common yet difficult to be solved integratedly in modern dynamic Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS). In this paper, we incorporate these issues and consider a dynamic cellular scheduling problem with flexible...