Modeling and solving the distributed and flexible job shop scheduling problem with WIPs supply planning and bounded processing times

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University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran

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In this paper, for the first time in the literature, we integrated production scheduling decisions and WIPs planning decisions in a distributed environment. We study the distributed and flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP) which involves the scheduling of jobs (products) in a distributed manufacturing environment, under the assumption that the shop floor of each factory/cell is configured as a flexible job shop. It is also assumed that the work-in-process (WIP) parts can be bought from the market instead of manufacturing them in-house, and they also can be sold in the market instead of processing their remaining operations and selling the end products. Moreover, the processing times of the operations can be decreased by paying a cost. However, there are a lower limit and an upper limit for the processing time of each operation. We formulate this general problem as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model. A fast heuristic algorithm is also developed to obtain good solutions in very short time. The algorithm is tested on some problem instances in order to evaluate its performance. Computational results show that the proposed heuristic is a computationally efficient and practical approach.

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International Journal of Supply and Operations Management
Volume 4, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
February 2016
Pages 78-89

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