Production time minimization strategies in a flexible manufacturing environment - a tabu search approach

In this paper is proposed a computational model (“Modelo de Seleção de Partes e Escalonamento” – MSPE) to generate a scheduling of parts in a Flexible Manufacturing System environment, considering due dates, production turns and machine tools with magazine constraints. The problems considered are the Part Selection Problem and the Scheduling Problem. The scheduling objectives are the minimization of switching tools time, stop instants total time and the parts tardiness. The optimization police are defined according to Objective Function’s weights values.