This paper, considers Network Failure Manufacturing System (NFPMS) and production control policy of unreliable multi-machines, multi-products with perishable items. The production control policy is based on the Hedging Point Policy (HPP). The important point in the simulation of this system is assumed that the customers who receive perishable item are placed in priority queue of the customers w...

In recent times flexible manufacturing systems emerged as a powerful technology to meet the continuous changing customer demands. Increase in the performance of flexible manufacturing systems is expected as a result of integration of the shop floor activities such as machine and vehicle scheduling. The authors made an attempt to integrate machine and vehicle scheduling with an objective to mini...

One important issue regarding the implementation of cellular manufacturing systems relates to deciding whether to convert an existing job shop into a cellular manufacturing system comprehensively in a single go, or in stages incrementally by forming cells one after the other taking the advantage of the experiences of implementation. In this paper two heuristic methods based on multi-stage progr...

This paper presents a Team-Work based architecture for Distributed Manufacturing Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms and Tabu Search. We consider that a good global solution for a scheduling problem may emerge from a community of machine agents solving locally their schedules and cooperating with other machine agents. Social aspects are considered when a community of autonomous agents cooperate ...

In the mid-to-large volume manufacturing operations, a Single Part Manufacturing System (SPMS) is usually used to produce one part model. As the progress of manufacturing technologies, modern manufacturing systems such as reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS), are more capable of producing a family of part models, such a system is often referred to as a Multiple Parts Manufacturing System ...

The planning of Manufacturing Systems involves frequently the resolution of a huge amount and variety of combinatorial optimization problems with a important impact on the performance of manufacturing organizations. The proposed approach is in line with reality and away from the approaches that deal with static and classic or basic Job-Shop scheduling problems. In fact, in real world, where pro...

A cellular manufacturing system (CMS) belongs to a family of modern production methods, which many industrial sectors have used beneficially in recent years. In fact, this system is an application of group technology (GT) determining cell formation (i.e. clustering part families and machine grouping) and layout design (i.e., inter-cell and intra-cell layouts). In the last two decades, a number ...