Dynamically scheduling and maintaining a flexible server

Abstract Deciding how to jointly schedule jobs and perform preventive maintenance is a fundamental problem in flexible manufacturing systems, particularly those arising in semiconductor manufacturing. At the same time, past work in this area shows that, even when there is only one station and one type of job, identifying policies that minimize the amount of work‐in‐process (WIP) is a difficult problem. In this paper, we study a single‐station …