A note on scheduling the two-machine flexible flowshop

Edwin Tai Chiu Cheng, Guoqing Wang

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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 [5]. 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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)187-190
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
Volume15
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 1999

Keywords

  • Flexible manufacturing cell
  • Flowshop scheduling
  • Make-span minimization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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