SCHEDULING A BOTTLENECK FACILITY FOR TWO PRODUCTION LINES

This paper deals with a scheduling problem at a bottleneck common facility for nsubsequent production lines, each of which is dedicated to produce a family of products. The common facility represents the bottleneck, since its capacity is less than the sum of the capacities of the n production lines. The components supplied by the bottleneck for the n lines are not exactly the same, and hence a non-productive change-over (or setup) time for the …