Constraint Programming for Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Repeated Jobs and Repeated Operations
			
	
 
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				Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Wroclaw, Poland
				 
			 
						
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				Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
				 
			 
										
				
				
		
		 
			
			
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
					
		
	 
		
 
 
Adv. Sci. Technol. Res. J. 2023; 17(3):280-293
		
 
 
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The manufacturing process relies heavily on production scheduling to guarantee effective production schedules, reduce costs and product shortages, and get away from delays, interruptions, and waste products. Scheduling issues have been effectively solved via constraint programming. In this paper, we consider a constraint programming formulation of the flexible flow shop scheduling problem with repeated jobs and operations repetitions. We also implemented seven fast heuristics and compared the results with the constraint programming solution. The results from using the CPLEX solver as a solution tool were satisfactory. Computational experiments demonstrate that using constraint programming can be significantly more advantageous than using heuristics.