Workload simulation and optimization in multi-criteria hybrid flowshop scheduling: a case study

Arianna Alfieri (1)

1 DSPEA

We study a real-life multiple objective flowshop scheduling problem in a cardboard company which differs from the conventional flowshop scheduling problem in several aspects, such as multi-machine stations, sequence-dependent setup times, work calendars on resources, reentrant flows, external operations, and transfer batches between stations. We present a simulation-based environment in which the production sequence can be interactively chosen by the user or found by a tabu-search based heuristic algorithm while a discrete-event simulation deals with the timing aspect.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Arianna Alfieri. Workload simulation and optimization in multi-criteria hybrid flowshop scheduling: a case study. International Journal of Production Research, 2009, 47 (18), pp.5129-5145. ⟨10.1080/00207540802010823⟩. ⟨hal-00513030⟩