Sels, VeroniqueSteen, FredericVanhoucke, Mario2025-10-062025-10-162025-10-162011-100360-8352https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2011.04.023https://repository.vlerick.com/handle/20.500.12127/7754In this paper, several methods for job shop scheduling are combined, adjusted and successfully applied to a real-world scheduling problem at a Belgian manufacturer producing industrial wheels and castors in rubber. The procedure is an extension of a hybrid shifting bottleneck procedure with a tabu search algorithm while incorporating various company specific constraints. The various extensions to cope with the company specific constraints have a strong similarity with the complex job shop problem formulation of Mason, Fowler, and Carlyle (2002). The new procedure is used as a simulation engine to test the relevance of various scenarios in order to improve the current planning approach of the company. A detailed computational experiment highlights the main contribution of the novel procedure for the company.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/4014 Manufacturing Engineering40 EngineeringComputers & Industrial Engineering58614