Mathematical Modeling for a Flexible Manufacturing Scheduling Problem in an Intelligent Transportation System

A HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR A BI-OBJECTIVE SCHEDULING PROBLEM IN A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING CELL

 This paper considers a bi-objective scheduling problem in a flexible manufacturing cell (FMC) which minimizes the maximum completion time (i.e., makespan) and maximum tardiness simultaneously. A new mathematical model is considered to reflect all aspect of the manufacturing cell. This type of scheduling problem is known to be NP-hard. To cope with the complexity of such a hard problem, a genet...

Intelligent Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

A scheme for the scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) has been developed which integrates neural networks, parallel Monte-Carlo simulation, genetic algorithms. and machine learning. Modular neural networks are used to generate a small set of atlractive plans and schedules from a larger list of such plans and schedules. Parallel Monte-Carlo Simulation predicts rhe impact of each on...

A hybrid algorithm optimization approach for machine loading problem in flexible manufacturing system

The production planning problem of flexible manufacturing system (FMS) concerns with decisions that have to be made before an FMS begins to produce parts according to a given production plan during an upcoming planning horizon. The main aspect of production planning deals with machine loading problem in which selection of a subset of jobs to be manufactured and assignment of their operations to...

A multi-objective mathematical model for production-distribution scheduling problem

With increasing competition in the business world and the emergence and development of new technologies, many companies have turned to integrated production and distribution for timely production and delivery at the lowest cost of production and distribution and with the least delay in delivery. By increasing human population and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions and industrial waste, in...

An Intelligent Manufacturing System for Heat Treatment Scheduling

Logical Communication Levels in an Intelligent Flexible Manufacturing System

In most cases in intelligent manufacturing applications the communication functions depend on the capabilities of the intelligent tool (e.g. expert system). Three different types of working mode and different logical levels of the communication of an intelligent cell-controller in a CIM environment is shown in the paper. These levels are implemented of course within the same protocol. After thi...