Tabu search and lower bound for an industrial complex shop scheduling problem

International audienceThis paper deals with an industrial shop scheduling problem that arises in a metal goods production group. The scheduling problem can be seen as a multi-mode job shop with assembly. Jobs have additional constraints such as release date, due date and sequence-dependent setup times. The aim of the decision-makers is to minimize the maximum lateness. This article introduces a tabu search procedure to solve the whole problem and a valid lower bound used to evaluate the tabu search procedure