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In many manufacturing and assembly facilities each job has to undergo a series of operations. Often, these operations have to be done on all jobs in the same order implying that the jobs have to follow the same route. The machines are then assumed to be set up in series and the environment is referred to as a flow shop
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Pinedo, M.L. (2012). Flow Shops and Flexible Flow Shops (Deterministic). In: Scheduling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2361-4_6
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