scholarly journals Comparative Simulation Study of Production Scheduling in the Hybrid and the Parallel Flow

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria L.R. Varela ◽  
Justyna Trojanowska ◽  
Silvio Carmo-Silva ◽  
Natalia M.L. Costa ◽  
Jose Machado

AbstractScheduling is one of the most important decisions in production control. An approach is proposed for supporting users to solve scheduling problems, by choosing the combination of physical manufacturing system configuration and the material handling system settings. The approach considers two alternative manufacturing scheduling configurations in a two stage product oriented manufacturing system, exploring the hybrid flow shop (HFS) and the parallel flow shop (PFS) environments. For illustrating the application of the proposed approach an industrial case from the automotive components industry is studied. The main aim of this research to compare results of study of production scheduling in the hybrid and the parallel flow, taking into account the makespan minimization criterion. Thus the HFS and the PFS performance is compared and analyzed, mainly in terms of the makespan, as the transportation times vary. The study shows that the performance HFS is clearly better when the work stations’ processing times are unbalanced, either in nature or as a consequence of the addition of transport times just to one of the work station processing time but loses advantage, becoming worse than the performance of the PFS configuration when the work stations’ processing times are balanced, either in nature or as a consequence of the addition of transport times added on the work stations’ processing times. This means that physical layout configurations along with the way transport time are including the work stations’ processing times should be carefully taken into consideration due to its influence on the performance reached by both HFS and PFS configurations.

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Siti Muhimatul Khoiroh

Production scheduling is one of the key success factors in the production process. Scheduling approach with Non-Permutation flow shop is a generalization of the traditional scheduling problems Permutation flow shop for the manufacturing industry to allow changing the job on different machines with the flexibility of combinations. This research tries to develop a heuristic approach that is non-delay algorithm by comparing Shortest Processing Time (SPT) and Largest Remaining Time (LRT) in the case of non-permutation flow shop to produce minimum mean flow time ratio. The result of simulation shows that the SPT algorithm gives less mean flow time value compared to LRT algorithm which means that SPT algorithm is better than LRT in case of non-permutation hybrid flow shop.


2014 ◽  
Vol 670-671 ◽  
pp. 1434-1438
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Zhao ◽  
Xiao Chun Zhu ◽  
Bao Sheng Wang

The n-job, k-stage hybrid flow shop problem is one of the general production scheduling problems. Hybrid flow shop (HFS) problems are NP-Hard when the objective is to minimize the makespan .The research deals with the criterion of makespan minimization for the HFS scheduling problems. In this paper we present a new encoding method so as to guarantee the validity of chromosomes and convenience of calculation and corresponding crossover and mutation operators are designed for optimum sequencing. The simulation results show that the Sequence Adaptive Cross Genetic Algorithm (SACGA) is an effective and efficient method for solving HFS Problems.


2013 ◽  
Vol 651 ◽  
pp. 548-552
Author(s):  
Parinya Kaweegitbundit

This paper considers two stage hybrid flow shop (HFS) with identical parallel machine. The objectives is to determine makespan have been minimized. This paper presented memetic algorithm procedure to solve two stage HFS problems. To evaluated performance of propose method, the results have been compared with two meta-heuristic, genetic algorithm, simulated annealing. The experimental results show that propose method is more effective and efficient than genetic algorithm and simulated annealing to solve two stage HFS scheduling problems.


2012 ◽  
Vol 252 ◽  
pp. 354-359
Author(s):  
Xin Min Zhang ◽  
Meng Yue Zhang

A main-branch hybrid Flow shop scheduling problem in production manufacturing system is studied. Under the premise of JIT, targeting of smallest cost, a Flow-Shop production line scheduling model is built in cycle time of buffer. Two stages Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA) is proposed. By the results of numerical example, the effective and advantageous of QGA was shown.


Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Wei Weng

For a production system, 'scheduling' aims to find out which machine/worker processes which job at what time to produce the best result for user-set objectives, such as minimising the total cost. Finding the optimal solution to a large scheduling problem, however, is extremely time consuming due to the high complexity. To reduce this time to one instance, Dr Wei Weng, from the Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Kanazawa University in Japan, is leading research projects on developing online scheduling and control systems that provide near-optimal solutions in real time, even for large production systems. In her system, a large scheduling problem will be solved as distributed small problems and information of jobs and machines is collected online to provide results instantly. This will bring two big changes: 1. Large scheduling problems, for which it tends to take days to reach the optimal solution, will be solved instantly by reaching near-optimal solutions; 2. Rescheduling, which is still difficult to be made in real time by optimization algorithms, will be completed instantly in case some urgent jobs arrive or some scheduled jobs need to be changed or cancelled during production. The projects have great potential in raising efficiency of scheduling and production control in future smart industry and enabling achieving lower costs, higher productivity and better customer service.


2012 ◽  
Vol 576 ◽  
pp. 714-717
Author(s):  
Mohammad Iqbal ◽  
Muhammad Ridwan Andi Purnomo ◽  
Muhammad Ammar Bin Mohd Imra ◽  
Mohamed Konneh ◽  
A.N. Mustafizul Karim

Material handling is one of major components in Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). Any improvement of material handling capability is to affect the performance of the whole system. This paper discusses the simulation study on the effect of part arrival rate and dispatching rules to the average waiting time and production rate of the FMS. The facilities of the system were modeled into simulation environment by using Arena Simulation Software. The production parameters such as machine processing times, part transportation speed and type of products were put into the model to represent the behaviors of the real system. Two rules have been considered in the study, i. e. first come first served (FCFS), and shortest processing time (SPT). Average waiting time and productivity were taken into account as performance measures of the system. The result of the study showed that SPT rule gives shorter average waiting time and higher productivity. Based on this result, the SPT rules would be used to control part transporter in order to have a better performance of the FMS.


2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (02) ◽  
pp. 245-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
JI-BO WANG ◽  
T. C. EDWIN CHENG

This paper deals with the machine scheduling problems with the effects of deterioration and learning. In this model the processing times of jobs are defined as functions of their starting times and positions in a sequence. We introduce polynomial solutions for some single machine problems and flow shop problems. The performance measures include makespan, total completion time, total weighted completion time, and maximum lateness.


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