• DocumentCode
    1472071
  • Title

    A note on scheduling the two-machine flexible flowshop

  • Author

    Cheng, T. C Edwin ; Wang, Guoqing

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Res. & Postgraduate Studies, Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Volume
    15
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    2/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    187
  • Lastpage
    190
  • Abstract
    In this note we consider the NP-complete one-setup version of the two-machine flexible manufacturing cell scheduling problem studied by Lee and Mirchandani (1988). We provide a pseudopolynomial dynamic programming algorithm to solve the problem, thus establishing that the problem is NP-complete in the ordinary sense. We derive a tight worst-case error bound for the heuristic presented by Lee and Mirchandani, and propose another heuristic with a tight worst-case error bound of 3/2
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; dynamic programming; flexible manufacturing systems; heuristic programming; production control; FMS; NP-complete one-setup version; heuristic; pseudopolynomial dynamic programming algorithm; two-machine flexible flowshop; two-machine flexible manufacturing cell scheduling; worst-case error bound; Dynamic programming; Flexible manufacturing systems; Heuristic algorithms; Job shop scheduling; Milling machines; Production systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1042-296X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/70.744613
  • Filename
    744613