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A Note on the Reversibility of the Two Stage Assembly Scheduling Problem

  • Yoon, Sang-Hum (College of Business, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Lee, Ik-Sun (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Sung, Chang-Sup (Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2007.05.31
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with proving a conjecture that the two stage assembly system is reversible in deterministic makespan scheduling context. The reversibility means that a job sequence in the assembly system has the same makespan as that of its reverse sequence in the disassembly system which is the reversal of the assembly system. The proposed conjecture shows that the reversibility of serial flowshops can be extended to non-serial and synchronized shops.

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