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Flow-shop scheduling

Description
A workshop with three different machines produces six types of pipes, for which the durations of the processing steps are given. Every workpiece runs through the machines in the same order. Once started, any operations must be carried out without interruption, but the workpieces may wait between the machines. Every machine only processes one piece at a time. A workpiece may not overtake any other by passing onto the following machine. Which is the sequence of workpieces that minimizes the total time for completing all pieces?

Further explanation of this example: 'Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP', Section 7.2 'Flow-shop scheduling' (b2flowshop.mos)

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flowshop_graph.mos

(!******************************************************
   Mosel Example Problems
   ======================

   file flowshop.mos
   `````````````````
   TYPE:         Flow-shop scheduling problem
   DIFFICULTY:   4
   FEATURES:     MIP problem, alternative formulation using SOS1,
                 graphical solution representation 
   DESCRIPTION:  A workshop with three different machines produces six 
                 types of pipes, for which the durations of the processing 
                 steps are given. Every workpiece runs through the machines
                 in the same order. Once started, any operations must be 
                 carried out without interruption, but the workpieces may
                 inwait between the machines. Every machine only processes 
                 one piece at a time. A workpiece may not overtake any 
                 other by passing onto the following machine. Which is the 
                 sequence of workpieces that minimizes the total time for
                 completing all pieces?     
   FURTHER INFO: `Applications of optimization with Xpress-MP', 
                 Section 7.2 `Flow-shop scheduling'
   
   (c) 2008 Fair Isaac Corporation
       author: S. Heipcke, 2002, rev. Sep. 2107
*******************************************************!)

model "Flow shop"
 uses "mmxprs", "mmsvg"
 
 declarations   
  NM = 3                              ! Number of machines
  NJ = 6                              ! Number of jobs
  MACH = 1..NM
  RANKS = 1..NJ
  JOBS = 1..NJ

  DUR: array(MACH,JOBS) of integer    ! Durations of jobs on machines

  rank: array(JOBS,RANKS) of mpvar    ! 1 if job j has rank k, 0 otherwise
  empty: array(MACH,1..NJ-1) of mpvar ! Space between jobs of ranks k and k+1
  inwait: array(1..NM-1,RANKS) of mpvar ! Waiting time between machines m
                                      ! and m+1 for job of rank k
  start: array(MACH,RANKS) of mpvar   ! Start of job rank k on machine m
                                      ! (optional)
 end-declarations

 initializations from 'flowshop.dat'
  DUR
 end-initializations

! Objective: total inwaiting time (= time before first job + times between
! jobs) on the last machine
 TotWait:= sum(m in 1..NM-1,j in JOBS) (DUR(m,j)*rank(j,1)) +
           sum(k in 1..NJ-1) empty(NM,k)

! Every position gets a job
 forall(k in RANKS) OneJobPos(k):= sum(j in JOBS) rank(j,k) = 1

! Every job is assigned a rank
 forall(j in JOBS) JobRank(j):= sum(k in RANKS) rank(j,k) = 1

! Relations between the end of job rank k on machine m and start of job on
! machine m+1
 forall(m in 1..NM-1,k in 1..NJ-1)
  Prec(m,k):=
   empty(m,k) + sum(j in JOBS) DUR(m,j)*rank(j,k+1) + inwait(m,k+1) =
    inwait(m,k) + sum(j in JOBS) DUR(m+1,j)*rank(j,k) + empty(m+1,k)

! Calculation of start times (to facilitate the interpretation of results)
 forall(m in MACH, k in RANKS) 
  Start(m,k):= start(m,k) = sum(u in 1..m-1,j in JOBS) DUR(u,j)*rank(j,1) +
                            sum(p in 1..k-1,j in JOBS) DUR(m,j)*rank(j,p) + 
                            sum(p in 1..k-1) empty(m,p)

! First machine has no idle times
 forall(k in 1..NJ-1) empty(1,k) = 0

! First job has no inwaiting times
 forall(m in 1..NM-1) inwait(m,1) = 0

 forall(j in JOBS, k in RANKS) rank(j,k) is_binary  

(! Alternative formulations using SOS-1: 
 forall(j in JOBS) RankSet(j):= sum(k in RANKS) k*rank(j,k) is_sos1 
 forall(k in RANKS) JobSet(k):= sum(j in JOBS) j*rank(j,k) is_sos1 
!)

! Solve the problem
 minimize(TotWait)

! Solution printing
 writeln("Total inwaiting time for last machine: ", getobjval)
 write(strfmt("Item",-11))
 forall(k in RANKS) write(strfmt(getsol(sum(j in JOBS) j*rank(j,k)),3))
 writeln 
 forall(m in MACH) do
  write("Machine ", m, ": ")
  forall(k in RANKS) write(strfmt(getsol(start(m,k)),3))
  writeln
 end-do 

! Solution drawing
 declarations
  JobGraph: array(JOBS) of string
 end-declarations

 svgsetgraphviewbox(0,0,
  max(m in MACH,k in RANKS) start(m,k).sol+max(m in MACH,j in JOBS)DUR(m,j), NM*5)
 svgsetgraphscale(10)
 svgsetgraphlabels("Time", "")

 forall(k in RANKS) do
  JobGraph(k):="J"+k
  svgaddgroup(JobGraph(k), "Job "+round(getsol(sum(j in JOBS) j*rank(j,k))) )
  svgsetstyle(SVG_FILL, SVG_CURRENT)
 end-do
 forall(m in MACH, k in RANKS) 
  svgaddrectangle(JobGraph(k), getsol(start(m,k)), m*4,
   DUR(m,round(getsol(sum(j in JOBS) j*rank(j,k)))), 1)
 svgaddgroup("M", "", SVG_BLACK)

 forall(m in MACH) svgaddtext(0,m*4-1, "Machine "+m)

 svgsave("flowshop.svg")
 svgrefresh
 svgwaitclose("Close browser window to terminate model execution.", 1)
end-model 

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