Schedule generation schemes for flexible manufacturing systems with additional resources

The paper presents the problem of scheduling in flexible manufacturing systems with additional resources consideration. In the developed model, the basic resources e.g. and additional resources - staff, tools, etc. - are assigned to resource groups. The allocation of operations to particular resources is carried out through these groups - by indicating the number of resources needed from a given group. At the scheduling stage, depending on the expected values of beginning and ending of the operation, the most advantageous resource for allocation is selected. Forward and backward scheduling strategies and serial and parallel schedule generation schemes are discussed in this context.