Solving Flow Shop Scheduling Problems with Blocking by using Genetic Algorithm

2021 ◽  
pp. 1156-1174
Author(s):  
Harendra Kumar ◽  
Pankaj Kumar ◽  
Manisha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Completion Time ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Working Process ◽  
Shop Scheduling ◽  
Mutation Operators ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Present Algorithm

Flow shop scheduling problems have been analyzed worldwide due to their various applications in industry. In this article, a new genetic algorithm (NGA) is developed to obtain the optimum schedule for the minimization of total completion time of n-jobs in an m-machine flow shop operating without buffers. The working process of the present algorithm is very efficient to implement and effective to find the best results. To implement the proposed algorithm more effectively, similar job order crossover operators and inversion mutation operators have been used. Numerous examples are illustrated to explain proposed approach. Finally, the computational results indicate that present NGA performs much superior to the heuristics for blocking flow shop developed in the literature.

Solving Flow Shop Scheduling Problems with Blocking by using Genetic Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Harendra Kumar ◽  
Pankaj Kumar ◽  
Manisha Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Completion Time ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Working Process ◽  
Shop Scheduling ◽  
Mutation Operators ◽  
And Inversion ◽  
Present Algorithm

Flow shop scheduling problems have been analyzed worldwide due to their various applications in industry. In this article, a new genetic algorithm (NGA) is developed to obtain the optimum schedule for the minimization of total completion time of n-jobs in an m-machine flow shop operating without buffers. The working process of the present algorithm is very efficient to implement and effective to find the best results. To implement the proposed algorithm more effectively, similar job order crossover operators and inversion mutation operators have been used. Numerous examples are illustrated to explain proposed approach. Finally, the computational results indicate that present NGA performs much superior to the heuristics for blocking flow shop developed in the literature.

USING ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION TO MINIMIZE THE FUZZY MAKESPAN AND TOTAL WEIGHTED FUZZY COMPLETION TIME IN FLOW SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEMS

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 559-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
PENG-JEN LAI ◽  
HSIEN-CHUNG WU
Keyword(s):  
Completion Time ◽  
Ant Colony Algorithm ◽  
Fuzzy Numbers ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Computational Procedure ◽  
Ant Colony ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Shop Scheduling ◽  
Processing Times

The flow shop scheduling problems with fuzzy processing times are investigated in this paper. For some special kinds of fuzzy numbers, the analytic formulas of the fuzzy compltion time can be obtained. For the general bell-shaped fuzzy numbers, we present a computational procedure to obtain the approximated membership function of the fuzzy completion time. We define a defuzzification function to rank the fuzzy numbers. Under this ranking concept among fuzzy numbers, we plan to minimize the fuzzy makespan and total weighted fuzzy completion time. Because the ant colony algorithm has been successfully used to solve the scheduling problems with real-valued processing times, we shall also apply the ant colony algorithm to search for the best schedules when the processing times are assumed as fuzzy numbers. Numerical examples are also provided and solved by using the commercial software MATLAB.

Optimization of Two-Stage Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling Problems Using Genetic Algorithm

2015 ◽  
Vol 766-767 ◽  
pp. 962-967
Author(s):  
M. Saravanan ◽  
S. Sridhar ◽  
N. Harikannan
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Simulated Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Hybrid Flow Shop ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Shop Scheduling ◽  
Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling

The two-stage Hybrid flow shop (HFS) scheduling is characterized n jobs m machines with two-stages in series. The essential complexities of the problem need to solve the hybrid flow shop scheduling using meta-heuristics. The paper addresses two-stage hybrid flow shop scheduling problems to minimize the makespan time with the batch size of 100 using Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Simulated Annealing algorithm (SA). The computational results observed that the GA algorithm is finding out good quality solutions than SA with lesser computational time.

Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling

2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 2925-2929
Author(s):  
Xiao Chun Zhu ◽  
Jian Feng Zhao ◽  
Mu Lan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Hybrid Flow Shop ◽  
Adaptive Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Shop Scheduling ◽  
Mutation Operators ◽  
Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Encoding Method ◽  
Crossover And Mutation

This paper studies the scheduling problem of Hybrid Flow Shop (HFS) under the objective of minimizing makespan. The corresponding scheduling simulation system is developed in details, which employed a new encoding method so as to guarantee the validity of chromosomes and the convenience of calculation. The corresponding crossover and mutation operators are proposed for optimum sequencing. The simulation results show that the adaptive Genetic Algorithm (GA) is an effective and efficient method for solving HFS Problems.

Hybrid Flow-Shop Scheduling Method and Simulation Based on Adaptive Genetic Algorithm

2014 ◽  
Vol 670-671 ◽  
pp. 1434-1438
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Zhao ◽  
Xiao Chun Zhu ◽  
Bao Sheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Production Scheduling ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Hybrid Flow Shop ◽  
Adaptive Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Mutation Operators ◽  
Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Encoding Method

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.

A genetic algorithm for flow shop scheduling problems

2004 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 830-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Etiler ◽  
B Toklu ◽  
M Atak ◽  
J Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Flow Shop ◽  
Flow Shop Scheduling ◽  
Scheduling Problems ◽  
Shop Scheduling
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