More effective heuristics for a two-machine no-wait flowshop to minimize maximum lateness

Autor: Harun Aydilek, Asiye Aydilek, Muberra Allahverdi, Ali Allahverdi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations, Vol 13, Iss 4, Pp 543-556 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1923-2926
1923-2934
DOI: 10.5267/j.ijiec.2022.7.002
Popis: We address a manufacturing environment with the no-wait constraint which is common in industries such as metal, plastic, and semiconductor. Setup times are modelled as uncertain with the objective of minimizing maximum lateness which is an important performance measure for customer satisfaction. This problem has been addressed in scheduling literature for the two-machine no-wait flowshop where dominance relations were presented. Recently, another dominance relation was presented and shown to be about 90% more efficient than the earlier ones. In the current paper, we propose two new dominance relations, which are less restrictive than the earlier ones in the literature. The new dominance relations are shown to be 140% more efficient than the most recent one in the literature. As the level of uncertainty increases, the newly proposed dominance relation performs better, which is another strength of the newly proposed dominance relation. Moreover, we also propose constructive heuristics and show that the best of the newly proposed heuristics is 95% more efficient than the existing one in the literature under the same CPU time.
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