Produktionsplanung und -steuerung in mehrstufigen Batchproduktionen : Methoden der Loskomposition und -terminierung bei stufenspezifischen Auftragsfamilien

This doctoral thesis introduces the problem of batching and scheduling non-permutation flow shops with m>=2 batch processing machines in sequence and stage specific incompatible job families. Batches are builded at each stage according to family-specific parameters. This creates a stage-interdependent batching and scheduling problem. The thesis includes the corresponding integer linear program as well as problem specific heuristics and a metaheuristic dealing with the planning problem. All methods are evaluated by real problem instances.