Hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm for job shop scheduling with due date time window and release time

This study intends to solve the job shop scheduling problem with both due data time window and release time. The objective is to minimize the sum of earliness time and tardiness time in order to reduce the storage cost and enhance the customer satisfaction. A novel hybrid meta-heuristic which combines ant colony optimization (ACO) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), called ant colony–particle swarm optimization (ACPSO), is proposed to solve this problem. Computational results indicate that ACPSO performs better than ACO and PSO.     

Production planning in virtual cell of reconfiguration manufacturing system using genetic algorithm

This paper focuses on the scheduling problem of the reconfiguration manufacturing system (RMS) for execution level, where the final objective is to output a production plan. The practical situation in Chinese factory is analyzed, and the characteristics are summarized into the contradiction between flow and job shop production. In order to handle this problem, a new production planning algorithm in virtual cells is proposed for RMS using an improved genetic algorithm. The advantages of this algorithm have three parts: (1) the virtual cell reconfiguration is formed to assist making production plans through providing relationship among task families and machines from cell formation; (2) The operation buffer algorithm is developed for flow style production in cells, which can realize the nonstop processing for flow style jobs; and (3) The multicell sharing method is proposed to schedule job shop jobs in order to fully utilize manufacturing capability among machines in multicells. Based on the above advantages, an improved genetic algorithm is developed to output scheduling plan. At last, the algorithm is tested in different instances with LINGO and the other genetic algorithm, and then the scheduling solution comparison shows the proposed algorithm can get a better optimum result with the same time using the comparison algorithm.     

An intelligent operations scheduling system in a job shop

Scheduling jobs effectively under the consideration of actual loads on machines is one of the most complicated tasks in production control. The conventional scheduling methods fail because of the complexity of the tasks. To deal with the complexity, knowledge-based approaches to job shop scheduling have been attempted. This paper presents an interactive scheduling expert system, IOSS (Intelligent Operations Scheduling System), which performs both predictive and reactive scheduling. IOSS combines the knowledge-based scheduling method with the interactive scheduling method to generate a feasible schedule and to revise the existing schedule. It is based on opportunistic and interactive repair based problem solving within a blackboard architecture. To handle conflicting events, heuristics are applied from the order point of view. Flexible reaction management is possible while keeping the changes in the generated schedule to a minimum by adjusting the schedule for tardy operations or changes in job shop status. The effectiveness of the proposed concept is demonstrated by applying the developed system to an example case.     

Hybridizing tabu search with ant colony optimization for solving job shop scheduling problems

The manufacturing industry continues to be a prime contributor and it requires an efficient schedule. Scheduling is the allocation of resources to activities over time and it is considered to be a major task done to improve shop-floor productivity. Job shop problem comes under this category and is combinatorial in nature. Research on optimization of the job shop problem is one of the most significant and promising areas of optimization. This paper presents an application of the global optimization technique called tabu search that is combined with the ant colony optimization technique to solve the job shop scheduling problems. The neighborhoods are selected based on the strategies in the ant colony optimization with dynamic tabu length strategies in the tabu search. The inspiring source of ant colony optimization is pheromone trail that has more influence in selecting the appropriate neighbors to improve the solution. The performance of the algorithm is tested using well-known benchmark problems and is also compared with other algorithms in the literature.     

基于混合遗传算法的车间调度问题的研究

作业车间调度问题是最困难的组合优化问题之一，也是计算机集成制造系统中的一个关键环节，在实际生产中具有广泛应用。为此，提出了实现车间调度的混合遗传算法的设计方案，把遗传算法与模拟退火算法相结合，充分发挥遗传算法良好的全局搜索能力和模拟退火算法有效避免陷入局部极小的特性。通过实验验证了基于GASA混合算法的作业车间调度方法显著提高了搜索效率，改进了收敛性能。     

求解车间调度问题的改进型自适应遗传算法

针对作业车间调度问题,以最小化完工时间为目标,借鉴内分泌激素调节机制,提出了一种新颖的改进型自适应遗传算法.通过引入自适应交叉概率和变异概率因子,克服了传统的遗传算法在解决生产调度问题时存在的搜索精度低和收敛性难以控制等问题,并在Microsoft Visual C++6.0中实现了该算法.通过一个10工件、10机器作...     

A two-stage genetic algorithm for large size job shop scheduling problems

The majority of large size job shop scheduling problems are non-polynomial-hard (NP-hard). In the past few decades, genetic algorithms (GAs) have demonstrated considerable success in providing efficient solutions to many NP-hard optimization problems. But there is no literature available considering the optimal parameters when designing GAs. Unsuitable parameters may generate an inadequate solution for a specific scheduling problem. In this paper, we proposed a two-stage GA which attempts to firstly find the fittest control parameters, namely, number of population, probability of crossover, and probability of mutation, for a given job shop problem with a fraction of time using the optimal computing budget allocation method, and then the fittest parameters are used in the GA for a further searching operation to find the optimal solution. For large size problems, the two-stage GA can obtain optimal solutions effectively and efficiently. The method was validated based on some hard benchmark problems of job shop scheduling.     

Reentrant two-stage multiprocessor flow shop scheduling with due windows

Reentrant flow shop scheduling allows a job to revisit a particular machine several times. The topic has received considerable interest in recent years; with related studies demonstrating that particle swarm algorithm (PSO) is an effective and efficient means of solving scheduling problems. By selecting a wafer testing process with the due window problem as a case study, this study develops a farness particle swarm optimization algorithm (FPSO) to solve reentrant two-stage multiprocessor flow shop scheduling problems in order to minimize earliness and tardiness. Computational results indicate that either small- or large-scale problems are involved in which FPSO outperforms PSO and ant colony optimization with respect to effectiveness and robustness. Importantly, this study demonstrates that FPSO can solve such a complex scheduling problem efficiently.     

面向成本的车间调度优化模型研究

简述了典型调度问题,给出了调度优化的成本目标函数,包括加工成本、设备等待的静态成本以及工件作为在制品的存储成本3个子目标,然后提出了兼顾总加工时间和总成本两个指标的车间调度优化依据。最后,应用所提出的模型对标准调度问题FT06的调度方案进行了评估优化,证明提出的方法是可行的。     

Pareto archived simulated annealing for job shop scheduling with multiple objectives

In this paper, the job shop scheduling problem is studied with the objectives of minimizing the makespan and the mean flow time of jobs. The simultaneous consideration of these objectives is the multi-objective optimization problem under study. A metaheuristic procedure based on the simulated annealing algorithm called Pareto archived simulated annealing (PASA) is proposed to discover non-dominated solution sets for the job shop scheduling problems. The seed solution is generated randomly. A new perturbation mechanism called segment-random insertion (SRI) scheme is used to generate a set of neighbourhood solutions to the current solution. The PASA searches for the non-dominated set of solutions based on the Pareto dominance or through the implementation of a simple probability function. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by solving benchmark job shop scheduling problem instances provided by the OR-library. The results obtained are evaluated in terms of the number of non-dominated schedules generated by the algorithm and the proximity of the obtained non-dominated front to the Pareto front.     

单件小批量生产的车间作业调度研究

目前的研究者对于车间作业调度问题的研究,多将其抽象为一个大家所熟知的JSP模型.显然,这样的模型无法适应具体的企业应用.针对以往的研究与实际应用脱节的问题,并根据单件小批量生产企业生产调度中的一些基本情况,提出一种解决方案,并将这种解决方法应用在模具制造单件小批量生产类型企业,从而使计划调度的理论研究服务于实际生产.     

Industrial applications of the ant colony optimization algorithm

The ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is a fast suboptimal meta-heuristic based on the behavior of a set of ants that communicate through the deposit of pheromone. It involves a node choice probability which is a function of pheromone strength and inter-node distance to construct a path through a node-arc graph. The algorithm allows fast near optimal solutions to be found and is useful in industrial environments where computational resources and time are limited. A hybridization using iterated local search (ILS) is made in this work to the existing heuristic to refine the optimality of the solution. Applications of the ACO algorithm also involve numerous traveling salesperson problem (TSP) instances and benchmark job shop scheduling problems (JSSPs), where the latter employs a simplified ant graph-construction model to minimize the number of edges for which pheromone update should occur, so as to reduce the spatial complexity in problem computation.     

A rolling horizon job shop rescheduling strategy in the dynamic environment

In this paper, the job shop scheduling problem in a dynamic environment is studied. Jobs arrive continuously, machines breakdown, machines are repaired and due dates of jobs may change during processing. Inspired by the rolling horizon optimisation method from predictive control technology, a periodic and event-driven rolling horizon scheduling strategy is presented and adapted to continuous processing in a changing environment. The scheduling algorithm is a hybrid of genetic algorithms and dispatching rules for solving the job shop scheduling problem with sequence-dependent set-up time and due date constraints. Simulation results show that the proposed strategy is more suitable for a dynamic job shop environment than the static scheduling strategy.     

一种动态识别瓶颈机床的启发算法

瓶颈机床是影响车间生产和调度的关键因素。针对Jobshop调度中的瓶颈机床确定问题,提出了动态识别瓶颈机床的搜索算法框架。并详细讨论了算法框架中的工序开始时间窗、搜索空间的概率模型和动态启发算法。最后用算例验证了动态启发算法的有效性。     

A constructive heuristic for the integrated scheduling of machines and multiple-load material handling equipment in job shops

This paper extends the traditional job shop scheduling problem (JSP) by incorporating the routing and scheduling decisions of the material handling equipment. It provides a generic definition and a mixed integer linear programming model for the problem considering the case of heterogeneous multiple-load material handling equipment. A constructive heuristic is developed for solving the problem. This heuristic is based on the well-known Giffler and Thompson’s algorithm for the JSP with modifications that account for the routing decisions of the material handling equipment and their effect on the start times of the manufacturing operations. Different dispatching rules are integrated into the heuristic, and experiments are conducted to study their effect on the makespan along with the determination of the computational time requirements of the developed heuristic.     

Minimizing makespan in a group shop with fuzzy release dates and processing times

This paper deals with a fuzzy group shop scheduling problem. The group shop scheduling problem is a general formulation that includes the flow shop, the job shop, and the open shop scheduling problems. Job release dates and processing times are considered to be triangular fuzzy numbers. The objective is to find a job schedule that minimizes the maximum completion time or makespan. First, the problem is formulated in a form of fuzzy programming and then prepared in a form of deterministic mixed binary integer linear programming by applying the chance-constrained programming. To solve the problem, an efficient genetic algorithm hybridized with an improvement procedure is developed. Both Lamarckian and Baldwinian versions are then implemented and evaluated through computational experiments.     

面向机械车间的制造执行系统

针对中小批量生产的机械加工车间,深入研究其生产管理模式,提出具有较强适应性的离散类制造执行系统模型,设计了Job-shop调度算法。并以此为构架开发了基于Web的制造执行系统软件,建立了一个以作业计划与调度为核心的MES运行系统。     

MULTI-SHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEM

A new concept of multi-shop (M ) is put forward which contains all basic shops including open shop (O), job shop (J ), flow shop (F ) and hybrid flow shop (H ) so that these basic shop can be scheduled together. Several algorithms including ant colony optimization (ACO), most work remaining (MWR), least work remaining (LWR), longest processing time (LPT) and shortest processing time (SPT) are used for scheduling the M. Numerical experiments of the M adopting data of some car and reC series benchmark instances are tested. The results show that the ACO algorithm has better performance for scheduling the M than the other algorithms, if minimizing the makespan ( C m*ax) is taken as the objective function. As a comparison, the separate shops contained in the M are also scheduled by the ACO algorithm for the same objective function, when the completing time of the jobs in the previous shop is taken as the ready time of these jobs in the following shop. The results show that the M has the advantage of shortening the makespan upon separate shops.     

面向IC生产模式的Job Shop调度问题的研究

针对即时定制生产模式的车间调度的特点,提出基于粒子群算法(PSO)的车间调度问题的解决方案.利用粒子群算法本身的优越性解决复杂的车间作业排序问题,克服了传统调度算法存在寻优效率低或全局寻优能力差的弱点.对粒子群的编码及寻优操作进行研究,确定了更适合车间调度问题的编码和操作方式,并将算法进行编程,应用到系统的车间调度部分.仿真结果表明,通过设置适当的参数,可以快速地得到理想的排序结果,能够适用于IC生产模式的车间调度问题.     

Developing two multi-objective evolutionary algorithms for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem

The aim of this paper is to study multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem (MOFJSP). Flexible job shop scheduling problem is a modified version of job shop scheduling problem (JSP) in which an operation is allowed to be processed by any machine from a given set of capable machines. The objectives that are considered in this study are makespan, critical machine work load, and total work load of machines. In the literature of the MOFJSP, since this problem is known as an NP-hard problem, most of the studies have developed metaheuristic algorithms to solve it. Most of them have integrated their objective functions and used an integrated single-objective metaheuristic algorithm though. In this study, two new version of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms including non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm and non-dominated ranking genetic algorithm are adapted for MOFJSP. These algorithms use new multi-objective Pareto-based modules instead of multi-criteria concepts to guide their process. Another contribution of this paper is introducing of famous metrics of the multi-objective evaluation to literature of the MOFJSP. A new measure is also proposed. Finally, through using numerous test problems, calculating a number of measures, performing different statistical tests, and plotting different types of figures, it is shown that proposed algorithms are at least as good as literature’s algorithm.