Clustering and Genetic Algorithm Based Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling with Multiple Operations

This research is motivated by a flowshop scheduling problem of our collaborative manufacturing company for aeronautic products. The heat-treatment stage (HTS) and precision forging stage (PFS) of the case are selected as a two-stage hybrid flowshop system. In HTS, there are four parallel machines an...

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Main Authors: Yingfeng Zhang, Sichao Liu, Shudong Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/167073