Affiliation:
1. Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, India
2. Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, India
Abstract
Scheduling is one of the most important problems in production planning systems. It is a decision-making process that plays a crucial role in many Industries. Different scheduling environments were addressed in the literature. Among them Flexible job-shop problem (FJSP) is an important one and it is an extension of the classical JSP that allows one operation which can be processed on one machine out of a set of alternative machines. It is closer to the real manufacturing situation. Because of the additional needs to determine the assignment of operations on the machines, FJSP is more complex than JSP, and incorporates all the difficulties and complexities of JSP. This chapter addresses a hybrid genetic scatter search algorithm for solving multi-objective FJSP. Makespan and flow time are the objective functions considered in this chapter. The computational results prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm for solving flexible job-shop scheduling problem.