While sophisticated systems for both process control and production planning enjoy a wide industrial acceptance, tools for batch process scheduling represent a serious gap in the fully automated batch plant. Despite over fifteen years of academic research in batch scheduling algorithms and Moore’s law increases in computing power, spreadsheets and calculators remain the state-of-the-art means f...

Process planning and production scheduling play important roles in manufacturing systems. In this paper a multiobjective mixed integer linear programming model is presented for the integrated planning and scheduling of multi-product. The aim is to find a set of high-quality trade-off solutions. This is a combinatorial optimization problem with substantially large solution space, suggesting that...

In a real planning problem, there exists a set of constraints (both temporal constraints and resource usage constraints) which must be satisfied in order to obtain a feasible plan. This requires a scheduling process (after the planning process) which should guarantee the availability of resources and the satisfiability of all the problem constraints. Several approaches have been proposed to dea...

This paper discusses various issues in integrated manufacturing planning that establish the need for incremental process planning. Interfaces between process planning and design, facility planning and scheduling modules are explained in order to verify that process plans are developed afcer receiving a feedback from other manufacturing planning systems and justify the need for incremental proce...

Planning and scheduling research is becoming an increasingly interesting topic in the Arti...cial Intelligence area, because of its immediate application to real problems. Although the last few years have seen dramatic advances in planning systems, they have not seen the same advances in the methods of solving planning and scheduling problems. In this paper, an intuitive way of integrating inde...

Traditionally, the three important manufacturing functions, which are process planning, scheduling and due-date assignment, are performed separately and sequentially. For couple of decades, hundreds of studies are done on integrated process planning and scheduling problems and numerous researches are performed on scheduling with due date assignment problem, but unfortunately the integration of ...

In recent years, a few researchers have addressed the need for the integration of process planning and scheduling functions in order to achieve superior overall system performance. Many of these researchers have discovered that the potential savings are substantial when process planning and scheduling are integrated. It has been reported that typical scheduling objectives, such as minimizing ma...

Traditionally, process planning and scheduling were performed sequentially, where depended on the result of planning. Considering their complementarity, two functions are more tightly integrated to improve performance job shop flexible manufacturing environment. This study proposes an adaptive multi-strategy artificial bee colony (AMSABC) algorithm solve (IPPS) problem. In AMSABC, search strate...