Emran Mohammadi - Corresponding author: School of Industrial engineering, Iran university of science and technology

In this paper we consider the flowshop scheduling problem, where parts are processed successively on multiple machines with fuzzy processing times and the transportation of parts among the machines is executed by a handling robot. We extend the multi-cyclic scheduling problem in which two or more identical parts enter and leave the robotic flowshop during each cycle with fuzzy process times. We consider a mixed integerprogramming (MIP) model for the multi-cyclic robotic flowshop scheduling problem based on the description and analysis of the problem

MIP, scheduling, fuzziness, handling robot