Title :
Evolutionary design of time-way charts for plating machines
Author :
Matile, Georges E. ; Tettamanzi, Andrea G B ; Tomassini, Marco
Author_Institution :
STS Ind. S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Scheduling the production for plating machines is a tedious and difficult task of critical importance for the economic exploitation of this equipment. The paper describes a promising approach to solving a simple version of this problem, namely cyclical hoist scheduling, based on evolutionary algorithms. The issues of solution encoding and specialised genetic operators are discussed and some preliminary results are presented
Keywords :
electroplating; evolutionary computation; hoists; manufacturing data processing; process control; production control; scheduling; cyclical hoist scheduling; economic exploitation; evolutionary algorithms; evolutionary design; plating machines; production scheduling; solution encoding; specialised genetic operators; time-way charts; Chemical processes; Chemical products; Chromium; Encoding; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; Job shop scheduling; Printed circuits; Production; Sociotechnical systems;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1999. CEC 99. Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5536-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.1999.782557
