Title
Scheduling a Proportionate Flow Shop of Batching Machines
Abstract
In this paper we study a proportionate flow shop of batching machines with release dates and a fixed number m >= 2 of machines. The scheduling problem has so far barely received any attention in the literature, but recently its importance has increased significantly, due to applications in the industrial scaling of modern bio-medicine production processes. We show that for any fixed number of machines, the makespan and the sum of completion times can be minimized in polynomial time. Furthermore, we show that the obtained algorithm can also be used to minimize the weighted total completion time, maximum lateness, total tardiness and (weighted) number of late jobs in polynomial time if all release dates are 0. Previously, polynomial time algorithms have only been known for two machines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10951-020-00667-2
JOURNAL OF SCHEDULING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Planning of pharmaceutical production,Proportionate flow shop,Batching machines,Permutation schedules,Dynamic programming
Journal
23.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1094-6136
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christoph Hertrich100.34
Christian Weiß200.34
Heiner Ackermann300.34
Sandy Heydrich431.84
Sven O. Krumke530836.62