Minimizing Tardiness on a Single Processor with Sequence Dependent Setup Times: A Simulated Annealing Approach

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1997

Publication Title

Omega

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

25

Issue

6

First page number:

619

Last page number:

634

Abstract

In today's fast-paced Just-In-Time and mass customization manufacturing in a sequence-dependent setup environment, the challenge of making production schedules to meet due-date requirements is becoming a more complex problem. Unfortunately, much of the research on operations scheduling problems has either ignored setup times or assumed that setup times on each machine are independent of the job sequence. This paper considers the problem of minimizing tardiness, a common measure of due-date performance, in a sequence-dependent setup environment. Simulated annealing was used to solve the sequencing problem, and its performance was compared with random search. Our experimental results show that the algorithm can find a good solution fairly quickly, and thus can rework schedules frequently to react to variations in the schedule. The algorithm is invaluable for ‘on-line’ production scheduling and ‘last-minute’ changes to production schedule. The results of this research also suggest ways in which more complex and realistic job shop environments, such as multiple machines with a higher number of jobs in the sequence, and other scheduling objectives can be modeled. This research also investigates computational aspects of simulated annealing in solving complex scheduling problems.

Keywords

Just-in-time systems; Manufactures; Manufacturing industries; Production scheduling; Scheduling; Sequence-dependent setup times; Simulated annealing; Simulated annealing (Mathematics); Tardiness

Disciplines

Business | Operations and Supply Chain Management

Language

English

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