Combining FMEA with DEMATEL models to solve production process problems

Combining FMEA with DEMATEL models to solve production process problems

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is an analysis tool for identifying and preventing flaws or defects in products during the design and process planning stage, preventing the repeated occurrence of problems, reducing the effects of these problems, enhancing product quality and reliability, saving costs, and improving competitiveness. However, FMEA can only analyze one influence factor ac...

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A Genetic Approach to Solve Interactive Production Problems

In this work we introduce the class of Interactive Production (IP) problems and propose an adaptive genetic algorithm for solving it. In this IP problem, a system continuously generates product instances which should meet the requirements of a market of customers/agents which are unknown to it. A dynamical scenario where both the products and the customer preferences are changing over the time,...

Combining a Unit Propagation with Genetic Algorithms to Solve max-SAT Problems

In this paper, we propose and investigate a new strategy for max-SAT problems. The proposed approach consists of a unit propagation strategy combined with a genetic algorithm. Based on the two strategies, we hope to propose an exact solver for max-SAT. The principal goal is to reduce the run-time of the unit propagation – based exact method. The latter is applied on partial assignments with few...

An Effective Search Framework Combining Meta-Heuristics to Solve the Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows

Many delivery problems in real-world applications such as the newspaper delivery and courier services can be formulated as capacitated vehicle routing problems (VRPs) [10], which we want to route a number of vehicles with limited capacity in order to satisfy customer requests with the minimal operational cost. This is usually measured by the number of vehicles used multiplied by the total dista...