Scheduling and batching in multi-site flexible flow shop environments

Author

Santos, A.S. ; Madureira, A.M. ; Varela, M.L.R. ; Putnik, G.D. ; Emrul Kays, H.M. ; Karim, A.N.M.

fYear

2015

fDate

17-20 June 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Global competition and the customers demand for customized products with shorter due dates, marked the introduction of the Extended Enterprise. In this Extended Manufacturing Environment (EME), lean, virtual, networked and distributed enterprises collaborate to respond to the market demands. In this paper we study the influence of the batch size on Flexible Flow Shop makespan minimization problem FF_C||C_max for two multi-sites approaches, the FSBF (Flow Shop Based Factories) and the PMBF (Parallel-Machines Based Factories). The computational study demonstrates how the performance of the PMBF model decreases with the increase of batch size and determines the batch sizes in which the performance is similar.

Keywords

flow shop scheduling; manufacturing data processing; parallel machines; EME; PMBF model; customer demand; customized product; extended manufacturing environment; multisite flexible flow shop environment; parallel-machine-based factories; Computational modeling; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing; Production facilities; Schedules; Transportation; Batching; Extended Manufacturing Environment; Flow Shop Based Factories; Multi-Site Flexible Flow Shop; Parallel-Machines Based Factories;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2015 10th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Aveiro

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISTI.2015.7170525

Filename

7170525