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This paper deals with N-stage hybrid flow shop (HFS) lot streaming problem to develop a schedule that minimises the makespan. The HFS considered consists of one machine in each of the first (N-1) stages and m machines in stage N. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is proposed and solved using LINGO solver. For large size problems, the LINGO solver takes longer time and hence an algorithm...