Purpose of this paper is to analyse and compare the behavior of workload control models in flow shops of both the MTO (Make-To-Order) and MTS (Make-To-Stock) classes. A simulation model has been built, where a manufacturing cell is loaded through an input control mechanism with shop orders coming from a “pool”. The “pool” itself is fed with planned orders coming from an MRP system. The MRP syst...

The use of intelligent techniques in the manufacturing field has been growing the last decades due to the fact that most manufacturing optimization problems are combinatorial and NP hard. This paper examines recent developments in the field of evolutionary computation for manufacturing optimization. Significant papers in various areas are highlighted, and comparisons of results are given wherev...

There is a manufacturing system where several parts are processed through machining workstations and later assembled to form final products. In the event of disruptions such as machine failure, original flow-shop schedule needs be revised and/or rescheduled. scenario, rescheduling methods based on right-shift affected operations work very well. Here in this study, deviation make-span from used ...