Ribas Vila, Imma; Companys Pascual, Ramon - In: Journal of industrial engineering and management : JIEM 2 (2009) 1, pp. 60-89
In this paper we address the scheduling problem that comes from an ice cream manufacturing company. This production system can be modelled as a three stage nowait hybrid flow shop with batch dependent setup costs. To contribute reducing the gap between theory and practice we have considered the...