Efficient methods to schedule reentrant flowshop system

  • Authors:
  • Naim Yalaoui;Lionel Amodeo;Farouk Yalaoui;Halim Mahdi

  • Affiliations:
  • CAILLAU Company, Issy Les Moulineaux, France;ICD-LOSI, University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France;ICD-LOSI, University of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France;CAILLAU Company, Issy Les Moulineaux, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

In order to apply a continuous improvement of their production systems, all managers are always trying to improve their production systems by optimizing their scheduling method. This involves the search for efficient methods for obtaining the best results according to the costs and the delay criteria for example. This paper aims to solve a specific hybrid reentrant flow shop scheduling problem. This one contains some stages with some identical parallel machines. The orders sequenced are splited in batches. Each batch is processed one or more time on the system. For the resolution, various methods have been developed. An exact method which lists all the solutions and selects the best one and approximated methods such as the genetic algorithm GA, the genetic algorithm under fuzzy controller FLCGA, the particle swarm optimization PSO and the particle swarm optimization under fuzzy controller FLCPSO. The results discussed in the paper are very interesting.