JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT-JIEM, cilt.11, sa.3, ss.390-405, 2018 (ESCI)
Purpose: Today's manufacturing facilities are challenged by highly customized products and just in time manufacturing and delivery of these products. In this study, a batch scheduling problem has been addressed to enable on-time completion of customer orders in a lean manufacturing environment. The problem is optimizing the partitioning of product components into batches and scheduling of the resulting batches where each customer order is received as a set of products made of various components.