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International Journal of Production Research Volume 42, 2004 - Issue 19
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Minimizing makespan on parallel batch processing machines

P.-Y. Chang Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, MingChi Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 243
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P. Damodaran * Electronics Manufacturing Research and Services, Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, USA
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S. Melouk Department of Operational Sciences, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7765, USA
Pages 4211-4220 | Received 01 Apr 2004, Published online: 21 Feb 2007
 
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Abstract

A simulated annealing approach to minimize makespan for identical parallel batch-processing machines is presented. Each job has a corresponding processing time and size. The machine can process the jobs in batches as long as the total size of all the jobs in a batch does not exceed the machine capacity. The processing time of a batch is equal to the longest processing time among all the jobs in the batch. Random instances were generated to test the approach with respect to solution quality and run time. The results of the simulated annealing approach were compared with CPLEX. The approach outperforms CPLEX on most of the instances.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the anonymous referee for the invaluable comments and suggestions.

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