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Operations Research Letters
Volume 21, Issue 4, November 1997, Pages 171-179
 
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A strongly polynomial algorithm for no-wait cyclic robotic flowshop scheduling

Vladimir Katsa and Eugene Levnerb, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

a Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel b Department of Computer Systems, Centre for Technological Education, 52 Golomb St., Holon 58102, Israel

Received 1 May 1995; 
revised 1 April 1997. 
Available online 10 June 1998.

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Abstract

We consider the problem of cyclic scheduling of identical jobs in a re-entrant flowshop. A robot is responsible for moving each job from a machine to another. Our aim is to find a minimum length cycle of the robot's moves such that exactly one new job enters the system and exactly one completed job leaves the system during the cycle. We present a strongly polynomial algorithm for finding such a cycle.

Author Keywords: Production/scheduling; Cyclic scheduling; Optimization

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Operations Research Letters
Volume 21, Issue 4, November 1997, Pages 171-179
 
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