Scheduling for improving productivity of the automated manufacturing system

Abstract

In this paper jobshop scheduling problem was considered on automated manufacturing systems with the closed loop and unidirectional material handling system. The objective of this research is to develop and evaluate heuristic scheduling procedures to improve productivity by minimizing makespan. Especially travel time of material handling system as well as processing time was considered in the proposed alogorithm. The heiristic algorithms are implemented for various cases. The results show that the proposal algorithms provide better solutions in productivity, frequency, job waiting time and the number of waiting jobs than the random scheduling algorithm.

Citation

Choi, J. and Jang, G. (2001), "Scheduling for improving productivity of the automated manufacturing system", Asian Journal on Quality, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 101-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/15982688200100019