The lot-streaming flow shop scheduling problem plays an important role in modern industry. This paper addresses this problem with the objective of minimizing the total weighted earliness and tardiness penalties and then proposes a simple but effective iterated local search (ILS) algorithm. In...

Process planning and scheduling are two of the most important functions in the manufacturing system. Traditionally, process planning and scheduling were regarded as separate tasks performed sequentially, where scheduling was implemented after process plans had been generated. However, their...