• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.87-96
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• 2001

This paper considers the transfer batch scheduling problem for a two-machine flow shop with setup times consisting of attached setup time and separate setup time. The attached setup is attached to the processing and can be scheduled in anticipation of arriving work. Two cases of the separate setup are addressed. One is the case that the separate setup can be done only when a machine is idle. The other is the case that the separate setup can be done even though the machine is idle. the other is the case that the separate setup can be done even though the machine is operating. A scheduling rule similar to Johnson\`s rule is suggested to minimize makespan. the scheduling rule developed can be applied to most of the two-machine flow shop scheduling problems if some parameters are adjusted. A numerical example is presented to illustrate the scheduling rule.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.22 no.10
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• pp.101-107
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• 2017

In this paper, we study the problem of parallel machine scheduling considering the moving time of multiple servers. The parallel machine scheduling is to assign jobs to parallel machines so that the total completion time(makespan) is minimized. Each job has a setup phase, a processing phase and a removal phase. A processing phase is performed by a parallel machine alone while a setup phase and a removal phase are performed by both a server and a parallel machine simultaneously. A server is needed to move to a parallel machine for a setup phase and a removal phase. But previous researches have been done under the assumption that the server moving time is zero. In this study we have proposed an efficient algorithm for the problem of parallel machine scheduling considering multiple server moving time. We also have investigated experimentally how the number of servers and the server moving time affect the total completion time.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

In this paper, we consider a two-machine re-entrant permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing total flowtime, and suggest branch and bound algorithms for the scheduling problem. In this scheduling problem, each job must be processed twice on each machine, that is, each job should be processed on the two machines in the order of machine 1, machine 2 and then machine 1 and machine 2. In this research, based on the results of existing researches for re-entrant permutation flowshop scheduling problems, various dominance properties, lower bound and heuristic algorithm are suggested for the problem, and those are used to develop branch and bound algorithms. In the computational experiments for evaluation of the performance of the algorithms, the suggested branch and bound algorithms are tested on randomly generated test problems and results are reported.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

This study proposes a systems engineering approach for the development of an advanced planning & scheduling (APS) system for a cosmetic case manufacturing factory. The APS system makes production plans and schedules based on the injection process, which consists of 27 plastic injection machines in parallel to control recommended inventory of products. The system uses machine operation/failure information and defective product/work-in-process tracking information to support intelligent scheduling. Furthermore, a genetic algorithm model is applied to handle the complexity of heuristic rules and machine/quality constraints in this process. As a result of the development, the recommended inventory compliance rate is improved by scheduling the 30-day production plan for 15 main products.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.281-287
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• 2001

Traditional job shop scheduling is supposed that machine has a fixed processing job type. But actually the machine has a highly utilization or long processing time is occurred delay. Therefore product system is difficult to respond quickly to the change of products or loads or machine failure etc. Here we use flexible job shop which is supposed that a machine has several jobs by tool change. The heuristic for the flexible job shop scheduling has to solve two problems. One is a routing problem which is determine a machine to process job. The other is sequencing problem which is determine processing sequence. The approach to solve two problems arc a hierarchical approach which is determined routing and then schedule, and a concurrence approach which is solved concurrently two problems by considering routing when it is scheduled. In this study, we simulate for flexibility efficiency fo flexible job shop scheduling with machine failure using hierarchical approach.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.99-107
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• 2008

This paper is concerned with scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) using a Fuzzy Logic (FL) approach. Four fuzzy input variables: machine allocated processing time, machine priority, machine available time and transportation priority are defined. The job priority is the output fuzzy variable, showing the priority status of a job to be selected for the next operation on a machine. The model will first select the machines and then assign operations based on a multi-criteria scheduling scheme. System/machine utilization, minimizing mean flow time and balancing machine usage will be covered. Experimental and comparative tests indicate the superiority of this fuzzy based scheduling model over the existing approaches.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2023

This paper is proposing a novel machine scheduling model for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem without setup times to minimize the total completion time, also known as "makespan". This problem is a NP-complete problem, and to date, most approaches for real-life situations are based on the operator's experience or simple heuristics. The new model based on the Memetic Algorithm, which was proposed by P. Moscato in 1989, is a hybrid algorithm that includes genetic algorithm and local search optimization. The new model is tested on randomly generated datasets, and is compared to optimal solution, and four scheduling models; three rule-based heuristic algorithms, and a genetic algorithm based scheduling model from literature; the test results show that the new model performed better than scheduling models from literature.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.21 no.47
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• pp.35-45
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• 1998

Scheduling problem in Flexible Manufacturing Systems(FMS) is complex because of various situation of Manufacturing Systems. Especially, in case of short-term scheduling demanding high efficiency, low cost at short-period, efficient scheduling is a serious problem. To solve this problem, many dispatching rules are developed. But, it leave much to be desired, because real situation in shop floor is complex and real-time scheduling is needed in real manufacturing shop floor. In this paper, search algorithm that allocate different dispatching rules to each machine is presented to complement lack of dispatching rule and develop practical real-time scheduling system. The search algorithm is described in detail. First, algorithm detect machine breakdown, evaluate each dispatching rule. dispatching rules for each machine meeting performance criteria are ranked. The algorithm selects new dispatching nile for bottleneck machine. The effectivenes and efficiency of the mixed dispatching rule and search algorithm is demonstrated.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.91-104
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• 1992

Flowshop scheduling problem is known to be NP-complete. Since the optimization apporach like branch-and-bound is limited by exponentially growing computation time, many heuristic methods have been developed. Total tardiness is one of the criteria that the researchers have recently considered in flowshop scheduling. There, however, are few literatures which studied the general (m machine)-flowshop scheduling under the total tardiness criterion. In this paper, a heuristic scheduling method to minimize total tardiness at the (m machine, n job)-flowshop is presented. A heuristic value function is proposed to be used as a dispatching criterion in initial schedule generation. And the schedule improving procedure, by pairwise interchange of tardy job with the job right ahead of it, is introduced. Illustrative examles and simulated results are presented.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2015

In this research, we develop and suggest branch and bound algorithms for a two-machine permutation flowshop scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing makespan. In this scheduling problem, after each job is operated on the machine 1 (first machine), the job has to start its second operation on machine 2 (second machine) within its corresponding limited waiting time. In addition, each job has its corresponding ready time at the machine 1. For this scheduling problem, we develop various dominance properties and three lower bounding schemes, which are used for the suggested branch and bound algorithm. In the results of computational tests, the branch and bound algorithms with dominance properties and lower bounding schemes, which are suggested in this paper, can give optimal solution within shorter CPU times than the branch and bound algorithms without those. Therefore, we can say that the suggested dominance properties and lower bounding schemes are efficient.