Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Worker Flexibility: State-of-the-Art Review

Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (FSSP) is one of the most known problems in the production domain. Flow Shop Scheduling Problem with Worker flexibility (FSSPW) is an extension of the classical FSSP consisting of two sub-problems: (i) operation sequencing and (ii) assigning workers to the selected machines in order to optimize the performance measure. In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art review of the different works proposed for the FSSPW, where we propose a new classification schema according to five criteria such as the used method, the variant of the FSSPW, the implemented approach, the optimization criteria and the worker flexibility.