Three Stage Specially Structured Flow Shop Scheduling Models

Scheduling pertains to establishing both the timing and use of resources within an organization. Under the operations function (both manufacturing and services), scheduling relates to use of equipment and facilities, the scheduling of human activities, and receipt of materials. This book provides to the readers a systematical and comprehensive introduction of the three stage specially structured flow Shop Scheduling. It is useful commonly for the people engaged in different industrial units, as it reduces the cost especially valuable time in completion of the jobs. All the findings, laid down in the manuscript are carefully analyzed by means of sound heuristic techniques and are demonstrated with suitable illustrations which provides immense use to Operations Research Fraternity, Industrial Engineering, Management etc. It covers not only scheduling models with different concepts such as weights of jobs & setup times separated from processing time but also put emphasis to their relevance to practical situation.