Batch Scheduling for Work Centers with Multiple Manufacturing Machines under the Parallel-Sequence-transfer Mode

Abstract

This paper, based on the parallel-sequence-transfer mode of batch jobs, aimed to implement research on the batch scheduling for work centers with multiple manufacturing machines in full detail. In order to arrange a precise product planning with batch jobs, obtain the maximum completing time with batch jobs, schedule manufacturing machines in each work center accurately, and get the actual number of manufacturing machines used to processing batch jobs in each work center, a new processing procedure of the processing time model under the parallel-sequence-transfer mode was designed. The new designed processing procedure was tested on a numeric example. The results show that the research in this thesis could not only arrange a precise production planning under the parallel-sequence-transfer mode, but also schedule manufacturing machines for each work center with multiple manufacturing machines accurately.