Guschinskaya, O.; Dolgui, A.; Guschinsky, N.; Levin, G. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 189 (2008) 3, pp. 902-913
We study an optimal design problem for serial machining lines. Such lines consist of a sequence of stations. At every station, the operations to manufacture a product are grouped into blocks. The operations within each block are performed simultaneously by the same spindle head and the blocks of...