Scheduling Jobs on Dedicated Parallel Machines

This paper considers scheduling problem on dedicated parallel machines where several types of machines are grouped into one process. The dedicated machine is that a job with a specific recipe should be processed on the dedicated machine even though the job can be produced on any other machine originally. In this process, a setup is required when different jobs are done consecutively. To minimize the completion time of the last job, a scheduling method is developed. Computational experiments are performed on a number of test problems and results show that the suggested algorithm give good solutions in a reasonable amount of computation time.