On the Assignment Problem of Arbitrary Processing Time Operations in Partially Overlapping Manufacturing Resources

The frequent transfers' challenge of workpieces between multiple resources is quite evident in the production process of customized parts. In fact, special jobs' transfers and processing, often, require workpiece unloading, transport and loading with, rather, idling and reconfiguration of resources that impact much job completion time and resource utilization. The overlapping capabilities of machine tools, otherwise, are common with, typically, …