Minimizing the total tardiness for the tool change scheduling problem on parallel machines

This paper deals with the total tardiness minimization problem in a parallel machines manufacturing environment where tool change operations have to be scheduled along with jobs. The mentioned issue belongs to the family of scheduling problems under deterministic machine availability restrictions. A...

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Main Authors: Antonio Costa, Fulvio Cappadonna, Sergio Fichera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2016-04-01
Series:International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/ijiec/Vol7/IJIEC_2015_38.pdf