Abstract
The paper concerns a flexible flowline scheduling problem, which arises in the footwear industry. Flexibility of the line allows for manufacturing simultaneously more products in lower quantities, but it also increases the complexity of the task of balancing the line, specially because the mix of products changes everyday. A simulation model to deal with the flexible line is developed and several job sequencing rules and different part input criteria are implemented. The impact of each rule on the quality of the schedules is measured, namely, according to makespan, productivity and average machine utilisation. Computational results concerning a real application are also presented. SIMPLE++ is the simulation language used.
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