Batching and scheduling jobs on batch and discrete processors
Operations Research
A hybrid two-stage flowshop with limited waiting time constraints
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Two-machine flowshop scheduling with a secondary criterion
Computers and Operations Research
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Minimizing total completion time on a batch processing machine with job families
Operations Research Letters
Efficient scheduling algorithms for a single batch processing machine
Operations Research Letters
Fuzzy scheduling of job orders in a two-stage flowshop with batch-processing machines
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Minimizing makespan in a flow shop with two batch-processing machines using simulated annealing
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Tabu search heuristic for two-machine flowshop with batch processing machines
Computers and Industrial Engineering
An effective neighborhood search algorithm for scheduling a flow shop of batch processing machines
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling with dynamic job arrivals
Computers and Operations Research
Minimizing makespan in a two-machine flowshop scheduling with batching and release time
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
Improved MILP models for two-machine flowshop with batch processing machines
Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
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Batch processing machines are commonly used in wafer fabrication, kilns, and chambers used for environmental stress screening (ESS). This paper proposes two models to schedule batches of jobs on two machines in a flow shop. A set of jobs with known processing times and sizes has to be grouped, to form batches, in order to be processed on the batch processing machines. The jobs are nonidentical in size. The processing time of a batch is the longest processing time of all the jobs in that batch. Mixed integer formulations are proposed for the flow shop problem when the buffer capacity is unlimited or zero. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the application of our model.