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No-Wait Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling with Due Windows

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  • Rong-Hwa Huang
  • Chang-Lin Yang
  • Shang-Chia Liu

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To improve capacity and reduce processing time, the flow shop with multiprocessors (FSMP) system is commonly used in glass, steel, and semiconductor production. No-wait FSMP is a modern production system that responds to periods when zero work is required in process production. The production process must be continuous and uninterrupted. Setup time must also be considered. Just-in-time (JIT) production is very popular in industry, and timely delivery is important to customer satisfaction. Therefore, it is essential to consider the time window constraint, which is also very complex. This study focuses on a no-wait FSMP problem with time window constraint. An improved ant colony optimization (ACO), known as ant colony optimization with flexible update (ACOFU), is developed to solve the problem. The results demonstrate that ACOFU is more effective and robust than ACO when applied to small-scale problems. ACOFU has superior solution capacity and robustness when applied to large-scale problems. Therefore, this study concludes that the proposed algorithm ACOFU performs excellently when applied to the scheduling problem discussed in this study.

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  • Rong-Hwa Huang & Chang-Lin Yang & Shang-Chia Liu, 2015. "No-Wait Flexible Flow Shop Scheduling with Due Windows," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2015, pages 1-9, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:456719
    DOI: 10.1155/2015/456719
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