Scheduling problems play a big role in manufacturing and planning the production for increasing the production efficiency and assigning the resources to operations. Furthermore, in many manufacturing systems there is a physical space between stages that called intermediate buffers. In this study, a model is proposed for minimizing the makespan of a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with inter...

this study investigates the coordination of production scheduling and maintenance planning in theflow shop scheduling environment. the problem is considered in a bi-objective form, minimizing themakespan as the production scheduling criterion and minimizing the system unavailability as themaintenance planning criterion. the time interval between consecutive maintenance activities as well as the...

Inspired by a case study, this paper reports a successful application of VNS to the production planning and scheduling problem that arises in the glass container industry. This is a multi-facility production system, where each facility has a set of furnaces where the glass paste is produced in order to meet the demand, being afterwards distributed to a set of parallel molding machines. Since th...

In many organizations, production planning is part of a hierarchical planning, capacity/resource allocation, scheduling and control framework. The production plan considers resource capacities, time periods, supply and demand over a reasonably long planning horizon at a high level. Its decision then forms the input to the more detailed, shorter-term functions such as scheduling and control at t...

The paper describes an approach for integrating planning capabilities into production scheduling. We give an abstract view of production scheduling that motivates the integration and we compare the existing solving technologies in respect to their power for planning and scheduling integration. A new formal model of production scheduling is proposed and its realization in the Visopt ShopFloor sy...

The efficient and economic operation of processing systems is normally addressed within a planning, scheduling and control framework. Due to its complexity, these activities are commonly approached in a decoupled rather than in a simultaneous manner. Although the decoupled approach leads to a computationally tractable problem, the solution of such a problem can result in a suboptimal solution b...

aggregate production planning (app) is one of the most important issues carried out in manufacturing environments which seeks efficient planning, scheduling and coordination of all production activities that optimizes the company's objectives. in this paper, we develop a mixed integer linear programming (milp) model for an integrated aggregate production planning system with closed loop su...

agricultural mechanization project must be identified in a short time frame to do a certain way; otherwise, cost is not the time to come and will also result in reduced yield. to avoid these costs in farming systems is necessary in any region that agricultural mechanization projects are and scheduling and planning as well as scientific until activities included in the project to fruition are do...