Research Article

A Study of Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Various Heterogeneous Labors

Table 4

The improvement ratios of optimal solution.

 Scale (1)Scale (2)Scale (3)Scale (4)

Workstation 3456
Job (n)5101520
Machine (m)7121720
Best combination of dispatchingRegular4, disabled2, old-aged1Regular8, disabled2, old-aged2Regular11, disabled4, old-aged2Regular11, disabled6, old-aged3
CPU time (ms)10396.6197351.64468900.351618725.21
Optimum of all regular labors hired6352.550715114686.25177150
Optimum of heterogeneous labors hired5262.8846931.62102196.77156719.61
Improvement ratios (%)17.15%7.46%10.89%11.53%