Simultaneous scheduling of jobs and transporters in a hybrid flow shop with collision-free transporter routing: A novel parallel heuristic

A computationally potent two-stage parallel heuristic (TSPH) and a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) are suggested to address the simultaneous scheduling of jobs and transporters in a hybrid flow shop system, wherein multiple transporters, stage omission, transporter eligibility, machine eligibility, and collision-free transporter routing are assumed. To the best of our knowledge, the significance of transporter collision-free routing has …