Many kinds of scheduling systems have been installed for many kinds of manufacturing factories more than thirty years until now. A production scheduling system includes very important functions for production cost reduction and the improvement in customer satisfaction. However, not all systematization has been successful. Therefore, in order to realize homogeneous systematization to various kin...

Production scheduling problems and traditional differential evolution(DE) are analyzed in this paper. Taking the minimum of total completion time as the objective function of production scheduling, a production scheduling model is established for batch processes in process industry.Considering that the performance of the traditional DE algorithm is sensitive to the parameter settings,an adaptiv...

The objective of multi-site scheduling is to support the scheduling activities of a global scheduler and schedulers in distributed production plants in a cooperative way. A global schedule generated on a global level must be translated into detailed schedules as part of the local scheduling process. In case of disturbance, feedback between the local and global levels is essential. Previous meth...