摘要：Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) is a compound system containing essentials like workplaces,
computerized storing and recovery systems, and material control devices such as automatons
and automated guided vehicles (AGVs). In this paper, an attempt is made to study concurrently
the machine and vehicle planning features in an FMS for minimization of the makespan.
Planning is concerned with the distribution of partial resources to tasks over time and it is a resolution
making procedure. It associates the processes, time, cost and overall purposes of the company.
In this work, Nawaz-Enscore-Ham (NEH) heuristic algorithm is implemented to solve the
scheduling problems in FMS. Eighty two problems and their existing solutions with different approaches
are examined. The preliminary results indicate that the NEH heuristic algorithm provides
better solutions with less computational time.
