Transactions of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers
Online ISSN : 2185-811X
Print ISSN : 1342-5668
ISSN-L : 1342-5668
Genetic Algorithm Approach to a Scheduling Problem for a Metal Mold Assembly Process
Kazuhiro ASHIZAWAHitoshi IIMANobuo SANNOMIYAKagayaki SUZUKIYasunori KOBAYASHI
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1999 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 27-35

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This paper deals with a large-scale scheduling problem for a metal mold assembly process of automatic vending machines, which is based on a job shop process with additional conditions such as precedence constraints among jobs, parallel machines, and introduction of multi-function machines. The objective of the problem is to minimize the sum of the tardiness of each product. The genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to this problem. Particularly, a method for generating initial individuals and a mutation procedure are proposed. It is observed through simulations for a real data that GA is more effective than a heuristic method.
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