Analysis of performance of fuzzy logic-based production scheduling by simulation

  • Authors:
  • Alejandra Duenas;Dobrila Petrovic;Sanja Petrovic

  • Affiliations:
  • Control Theory and Applications Centre, School of Mathematical, and Information Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK;Control Theory and Applications Centre, School of Mathematical, and Information Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK;Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group, School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, a new fuzzy logic-based approach to production scheduling in the presence of uncertain disruptions is presented. The approach is applied to a real-life problem of a pottery company where the uncertain disruption considered is glaze shortage. This disruption is defined by two parameters that are specified imprecisely: number of glaze shortage occurrences and glaze delivery time. They are modelled and combined using standard fuzzy sets and level 2 fuzzy sets, respectively. A predictive schedule is generated in such a way as to absorb the impact of the fuzzy glaze shortage disruption. The schedule performance measure used is makespan. Two measures of predictability are defined: the average deviation and the standard deviation of the completion time of the last job produced on each machine. In order to analyse the performance of the predictive schedule, a new simulation tool FPSSIM is developed and implemented. Various tests carried out show that the predictive schedules have good performance in the presence of uncertain disruptions.