A Proposal of Production Scheduling Method considering with Users' Demands and Machines' Condition in Realization of Mass-customization

Abstract

Recently, the environment of manufacturing industries greatly changes according to diversification of users’ demands and production machines’ condition, and then the effective scheduling method to deal with changes of various situation is required. In this paper, a scheduling method for realizing the mass-customization is proposed using a combinatorial auction technique which is one of the autonomous distributed optimization method. The users’ demands, the number of running machines and the equalization of the running machines’ usage ratio each term are considered in the proposed method. Computational experiments are performed for evaluating the effectiveness of the proposed method. The suitable schedules in consideration of the users’ demands and machines’ conditions are acquired using the proposed method. Thus, the proposed method has the potential to make the effective scheduling in realization of mass-customization.