Instances for the Collaborative Batching Problem in Multi-Site Additive Manufacturing

In recent years researchers focused on increasing efficiencies of AM operations as the technology reached new levels of maturity. Collaborative production (CP) is a proven approach to decrease the costs of operations in conventional fields of production.

However, CP has not been sufficiently studied in the context of AM. We introduce the collaborative multi-site batching problem in the context of AM, where we assume that production orders have to be batched and scheduled at several geographically distributed manufacturing sites by a central authority. This dataset provides instances for (i) determining the performance of algorithms for the collaborative multi-site additive manufacturing problem, and (ii) evaluating efficiency gains of collaborative scenarios of the problem.