FLOW SHOP GROUP SCHEDULING WITH LIMITED BUFFER CAPACITY AND DIFFERENT WORKFORCE

G. Celano, A. Costa, S. Fichera

2011

Abstract

A permutational flowshop group scheduling problem (GSP) with sequence dependent set-up times, finite interoperational buffer capacity and workers with different skills has been investigated in this paper. The set-up times are influenced by the sequence of groups and the worker skill level; the manufacturing tasks on a part are completely automated and the working times do not depend on the operator’s skill. The minimization of the completion time is the objective of the group scheduling. A Genetic Algorithm is proposed as an efficient tool to solve the investigated problem; a benchmark of problems has been generated to investigate the influence of the inter-operational buffer capacity and the worker skill level on the completion time.

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Celano G., Costa A. and Fichera S. (2011). FLOW SHOP GROUP SCHEDULING WITH LIMITED BUFFER CAPACITY AND DIFFERENT WORKFORCE . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: MSIE, (ICINCO 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-75-1, pages 486-491. DOI: 10.5220/0003648704860491


in Bibtex Style

@conference{msie11,
author={G. Celano and A. Costa and S. Fichera},
title={FLOW SHOP GROUP SCHEDULING WITH LIMITED BUFFER CAPACITY AND DIFFERENT WORKFORCE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: MSIE, (ICINCO 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={486-491},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003648704860491},
isbn={978-989-8425-75-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: MSIE, (ICINCO 2011)
TI - FLOW SHOP GROUP SCHEDULING WITH LIMITED BUFFER CAPACITY AND DIFFERENT WORKFORCE
SN - 978-989-8425-75-1
AU - Celano G.
AU - Costa A.
AU - Fichera S.
PY - 2011
SP - 486
EP - 491
DO - 10.5220/0003648704860491