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A Flow shop Production Planning Problem with basic period policy and Sequence Dependent set up times

Many authors have examined lot sizing, scheduling and sequence of multi-product flow shops, but most of them have assumed that set up times are independent of sequence. Whereas dependence of set up times to sequence is more common in practice. Hence, in this paper, we examine the discussed problem with hypothesis of dependence of set up times to sequence and cyclic schedule policy in basic peri...

A three-stage assembly flow shop scheduling problem with blocking and sequence-dependent set up times

This paper considers a three-stage assembly flowshop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup < /div> times at the first stage and blocking times between each stage in such a way that the weighted mean completion time and makespan are minimized. Obtaining an optimal solution for this type of complex, large-sized problem in reasonable computational time using traditiona...

Autonomous Shop Floor Control Considering Set-up Times

In this paper, a new autonomous control strategy, which incorporates both (1) expected waiting times based on local information about buffer levels at hand and (2) the experience of predecessor parts’ decisions, i.e. a pheromone-based decision making process will be presented. This new autonomous control strategy will be applied to a general production logistic scenario with set-up times. Furth...

A reply to DeVico, Lewis & Gallo (2015).

Learning to Set Up Numerical

Gradient-based numerical optimization of complex engineering designs ooers the promise of rapidly producing better designs. However, such methods generally assume that the objective function and constraint functions are continuous , smooth, and deened everywhere. Unfortunately , realistic simulators tend to violate these assumptions, making optimization unreliable. Several decisions that need t...