$title Flow Shop Scheduling - (FLOWSHOP,SEQ=376) $onText A workshop that produces metal pipes on demand for automotive industry has three machines for bending the pipes, soldering the fastenings, and assembling the links. The workshop has to produce six items, for which the durations of the processing steps are given below. Once started, jobs must be carried out to completion, but the workpieces(items) may wait between the machines. Every machine only processes one item at a time. A workpiece(item) may not overtake any other. What is the sequence that minimizes the total time for completing all items (makespan)? Gueret, C, Prins, C, and Sevaux, M, Applications of Optimization with Xpress-MP, Translated and revised by Susanne Heipcke. Dash Optimization, 2002. Keywords: mixed integer linear programming, relaxed mixed integer programming, scenario analysis, GUSS, flow shop scheduling, production planning $offText Set i 'item' / i1*i6 / m 'machine' / bending, soldering, assembly /; $set lastrank i6 $set lastmachine assembly Table proctime(m,i) i1 i2 i3 i4 i5 i6 bending 3 6 3 5 5 7 soldering 5 4 2 4 4 5 assembly 5 2 4 6 3 6; Alias (i,k); Variable rank(i,k) 'item i has position k' start(m,k) 'start time for job in position k on m' comp(m,k) 'completion time for job in postion k on m' totwait 'time before first job + times between jobs on last machine'; Binary Variable rank; Positive Variable start, comp; Equation oneInPosition(k) 'every position gets a jobs' oneRankPer(i) 'every job is assigned a rank' onmachrel(m,k) 'relations between the end of job rank k on machine m and start of job rank k on machine m+1' permachrel(m,k) 'relations between the end of job rank k on machine m and start of job rank k+1 on machine m' defcomp(m,k) 'calculation of completetion time based on start time and proctime' defobj 'completion time of job rank last'; oneInPosition(k).. sum(i, rank(i,k)) =e= 1; oneRankPer(i).. sum(k, rank(i,k)) =e= 1; onmachrel(m,k+1).. start(m,k+1) =g= comp(m,k); permachrel(m+1,k).. start(m+1,k) =g= comp(m,k); defcomp(m,k).. comp(m,k) =e= start(m,k) + sum(i, proctime(m,i)*rank(i,k)); defobj.. totwait =g= comp('%lastmachine%','%lastrank%'); Model sequence / all /; option optCr = 0; solve sequence using mip min totwait; * Maybe the following is better info to output Parameter startjob(m,i); startjob(m,i) = sum(k$(rank.l(i,k)>0.5), start.l(m,k)); option startjob:0:1:1; display startjob; * For small data we can just enumerate all permutations and evaluate the schedule $ifE card(i)>8 $exit * Only test with some LP solvers $ifI %gams.rmip% == cplex $goTo continue $ifI %gams.rmip% == xpress $goTo continue $ifI %gams.rmip% == gurobi $goTo continue $ifI %gams.rmip% == soplex $goTo continue $exit $label continue $eval pmax fact(card(i)) Set p / p1*p%pmax% / rankall(p,i,i); option rankall > i; Parameter prankall(p,i,i) 'parameter version of rankall' ptotwait(p) 'scenario objective'; prankall(rankall) = 1; * Use GUSS to evaluate all scenarios Set dict / p. scenario. '' rank. fixed. prankall totwait.level. ptotwait /; solve sequence using rmip min totwait scenario dict; Scalar besttotwait / +inf /; loop(p, if(besttotwait > ptotwait(p), besttotwait = ptotwait(p); rank.l(i,k) = 1$(rankall(p,i,k)); ); ); display besttotwait, rank.l;