...Shiu Hong Choi; James Siu Lung Lee Minimising makespan aims to achieve high utilisation of equipment and resources by getting all jobs out quickly. This is an important scheduling criterion, especially for automated systems, because of the high investment cost. The problem, however, becomes complex...

... of different sub‐schedules are linked together to form a complete schedule. This paper investigates the effect of adding a part prior to the part‐pair in a 2‐part‐2‐machine optimal sub‐schedule. The conditions in which interchange of part‐pair sequence is required in order to minimise or maintain the makespan...