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Single machine scheduling with sequence-dependent family setups to minimize maximum lateness
Abstract
Motivated by a real-life scheduling problem in a steel wire factory in China, this paper considers the single machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent family setup times to minimize maximum lateness. In view of the NP-hard nature of the problem, structural (dominance and neighbourhood) properties of the problem are described and used in the tabu search algorithms to find optimal or near-optimal schedules. These proposed structural properties quickly exclude unpromising and/or non-improving neighbours from further search. Empirical results on the randomly generated and real-life problem instances from a factory in China show that the proposed heuristic algorithms utilizing the structural properties can obtain optimal or near optimal solutions with a reasonable computational effort. © 2010 Operational Research Society Ltd.