Espelage, Wolfgang; Wanke, Egon - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 51 (2000) 3, pp. 495-513
We consider the movement minimization problem in a conveyer flow shop processing controlled by one worker that has to serve all machines. Each machine can only execute tasks if the worker is present. A few jobs can be queued in a buffer in front of each machine. The objective is to minimize the...