Even though research in flow shop production scheduling has been carried out for many decades, there is still a gap between research and application — especially in manufacturing paradigms such as one-of- a-kind production (OKP) that intensely challenges real time adaptive production...

We consider the scheduling problem of cyclic production in a bufferless dual-gripper robot cell processing a family of identical parts. The objective is to find an optimal sequence of robot moves so as to maximize the long-run average throughput rate of the cell. While there has been a...

In a proportionate flow shop problem several jobs have to be processed through a fixed sequence of machines and the processing time of each job is equal on all machines. By identifying jobs with agents, whose costs linearly depend on the completion time of their jobs, and assuming an initial...