Lin, Bertrand M.T.; Lin, Y.-Y.; Fang, K.-T. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 141 (2013) 1, pp. 286-294
This paper studies a two-machine flow shop scheduling problem with a supporting precedence relation. The model originates from a real production context of a chemical factory that produces foam-rubber products. We extend the traditional two-machine flow shop by dividing the operations into two...