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This research investigates the operation scheduling problem for a robot-centered manufacturing cells, Robot is in charge of the part loading and unloading from a CNC machine. In addition, the parts can be transferred either in a pre-fixed sequence or a random sequence for processing. The objective of this research is to find an optimal sequence for parts to be processed on the machine such that the makespan is minimizing. In this research we provide properties and a branch and bound approach to find optimal solution. In additions , according to the nondelay concept and tabular scheduling method, this research also presents two different heuristic algorithm. Through intensive experimental tests, these two algorithms are very efficient and effective in solving the problems.
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