A study on the impact of periodic and event-driven rescheduling on a manufacturing system: An integrated process planning and scheduling case
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
Published online on February 16, 2016
Abstract
The integration of process planning and scheduling is a very important problem because it proposes a new idea for improving the performance of a manufacturing system. At present, most existing studies on this problem are static, which assumes that all the jobs to be processed are available in the beginning. However, the practical processing situation is dynamic, such as new job arrivals. Since dynamic production situations are different with static cases, it is important to study the characteristics of actual production situations. In this article, the characteristics of dynamic integrated process planning and scheduling problem with job arrivals are studied. A novel mixed integer linear programming model is established to accommodate new job arrivals, and three criteria (makespan, stability, and tardiness) are considered. New periodic and event-driven rescheduling strategies are presented. In the proposed strategy, newly added jobs together with uncompleted jobs will be rescheduled by non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II to obtain the optimal Pareto front when the rescheduling procedure is triggered. The entropy-based weight assigning method together with the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method is adopted to determine an appropriate schedule among the resultant non-dominated solutions. A set of well-known benchmark instances is employed to investigate the characteristics of the dynamic integrated process planning and scheduling problem with random job arrivals. Experimental results show that the length of a scheduling interval, the number of newly added jobs, and the shop utilization have an important influence on the efficiency of a manufacturing system.