Scheduling of Test Operations at Bosch Thermotechnology R&D Laboratory

Abstract

In Bosch’s Research and Development (R&D) laboratories several performance tests are executed to check whether the targeted quality and reliability values of the products are attained. Each product has to go through several tests on several test machines with different processing times. The specified problem in Bosch Thermotechnology entirely fits the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling (FJSS) Problem with machine and operation dependent setup times. The most crucial factor while performing these schedules of the products is to complete them as soon as possible to provide customer satisfaction as well as test machine utilization. Hence our objective function is to minimize the makespan. Additionally a decision support system (DSS) for the company on MS Excel is developed. © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.