英文摘要 |
The final test burn-in operation of the semiconductor industry ischosen as the topic for exploring a two-machine flowshop with batchprocessing machines. A batch processing machine is one that cansimultaneously process several jobs in one batch. The processing time ofa batch is equal to the largest processing time of any job in the batch. Inorder to improve efficiency of a flowshop with two batch processingmachines, an effective simulated annealing based heuristic (SAH) isproposed to schedule the jobs to minimize the makespan. When used in10-job problems, and the results of the SAH are compared with those of themixed integer linear programming (MILP) model, in 27 out of 30 instances,the SAH results were optimum. Furthermore, in order to evaluate theperformance of the SAH in larger batch problems, the results werecompared with those using the lower bound and those using an existinglocal search based heuristic, respectively. Performance evaluation indexesused in the comparisons are the relative error percentage for the lower bound (EL) and the percentage improvement (PI) for the local search basedheuristic. The results show that the SAH algorithm is efficient andeffective. |