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Scheduling products with subassemblies and changeover time

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  • Xinxin Hu

    (University of Houston Downtown)

  • James D Blocher

    (Indiana University)

  • Hans Sebastian Heese

    (EBS University)

  • Feng Zhou

    (California State University Stanislaus)

Abstract

We revisit the problem, previously studied by Coffman et al, of scheduling products with two subassemblies on a common resource, where changeovers consume time, under the objective of flow-time minimization. We derive some previously unidentified structural properties that could be important to researchers working on similar batch scheduling problems. We show that there exists a series of base schedules from which optimal schedules can be easily derived. As these base schedules build on each other, they are easy to construct as well. We also show that the structure of these base schedules is such that batch sizes decrease over time in a well-defined manner. These insights about the general form of the schedules might also be important to practitioners wanting some intuition about the schedule structure that they are implementing.

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  • Xinxin Hu & James D Blocher & Hans Sebastian Heese & Feng Zhou, 2016. "Scheduling products with subassemblies and changeover time," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 67(8), pages 1025-1033, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:67:y:2016:i:8:d:10.1057_jors.2015.108
    DOI: 10.1057/jors.2015.108
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