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A problem of scheduling the production of pharmaceuticals in a limited number of vessels is presented. It has the characteristics of sequence dependent changeover times, multi-stage production, parallel usage of vessels and flexibility in the choice of vessels. An optimizing procedure is discussed, but dismissed as computationally infeasible. Consequently, a heuristic is developed, and its performance evaluated. Typical results are also reported.
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Mühlemann et al. (1975) studied this question.
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