Flow Shop Programming of Robotic Cells with Jobdependent Transportation and Set – up Effects

Authors

A. P. Nagwai Department of Statistics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
Samson. Agboola Department of Statistics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
M. A Olusegun Department of Statistics, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.

programming, sequencing, modeling, networks and graphs, flexible manufacturing systems

A flexible manufacturing cell consisting of two machining centers, several automated storage retrieval stations, and a mobile

transporting robot is considered. The problem is to schedule jobs on machines so as to minimize the makespan, with the effects of

transportation and set-ups to be taken into account. The problem is studied with the aid of a graph model, and an exact algorithm of

cubic complexity is derived based on the Gilmore- Gomory algorithm for the travelling salesman problem

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