A comprehensive review and evaluation of permutation flowshop heuristics to minimize flowtime

QK Pan, R Ruiz - Computers & Operations Research, 2013 - Elsevier
In recent years, a large number of heuristics have been proposed for the minimization of the
total or mean flowtime/completion time of the well-known permutation flowshop scheduling …

A dynamic model and an algorithm for short-term supply chain scheduling in the smart factory industry 4.0

D Ivanov, A Dolgui, B Sokolov, F Werner… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Smart factories Industry 4.0 on the basis of collaborative cyber-physical systems represents
a future form of industrial networks. Supply chains in such networks have dynamic structures …

Automatic design of constructive heuristics for a reconfigurable distributed flowshop group scheduling problem

B Zhang, L Meng, C Lu, Y Han, H Sang - Computers & Operations …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study addresses a reconfigurable distributed flowshop group scheduling problem
(RDFGSP), the characteristics of which lie in the reconfigurability of the flowlines, and the …

The distributed assembly permutation flowshop scheduling problem

S Hatami, R Ruiz, C Andres-Romano - International Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, improving the management of complex supply chains is a key to become
competitive in the twenty-first century global market. Supply chains are composed of multi …

Optimization of makespan for the distributed no-wait flow shop scheduling problem with iterated greedy algorithms

W Shao, D Pi, Z Shao - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
The distributed production lines widely exist in modern supply chains and manufacturing
systems. This paper aims to address the distributed no-wait flow shop scheduling problem …

Effective heuristics for the blocking flowshop scheduling problem with makespan minimization

QK Pan, L Wang - Omega, 2012 - Elsevier
The blocking flowshop scheduling problem with makespan criterion has important
applications in a variety of industrial systems. Heuristics that explore specific characteristics …

A decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for hybrid flowshop rescheduling problem with consistent sublots

B Zhang, Q Pan, L Meng, X Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Lot streaming is the most widely used technique to facilitate the overlap of successive
operations. Considering the consistent sublots and machine breakdown, this study …

Effective constructive heuristic and iterated greedy algorithm for distributed mixed blocking permutation flow-shop scheduling problem

Z Shao, W Shao, D Pi - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Distributed permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (DPFSP) has achieved much
attention in recent years, which always assumes that there are infinite buffers between any …

Local search methods for the flowshop scheduling problem with flowtime minimization

QK Pan, R Ruiz - European Journal of Operational Research, 2012 - Elsevier
Flowshop scheduling is a very active research area. This problem still attracts a
considerable amount of interest despite the sheer amount of available results. Total flowtime …

Applications of Lagrangian relaxation-based algorithms to industrial scheduling problems, especially in production workshop scenarios: A review

L Sun, R Yang, J Feng, G Guo - Journal of Process Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Industrial scheduling problems (ISPs), especially industrial production workshop scheduling
problems (IPWSPs) in various sectors like manufacturing, and power require allocating …