Title: Bus manufacturing workshop scheduling method with routing buffer

Authors: Zhonghua Han; Jingyuan Zhang; Shiyao Wang; Yuanwei Qi

Addresses: Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, China; Department of Digital Factory, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China ' Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, China ' Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, China ' Faculty of Information and Control Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, China

Abstract: Aiming at solving the problem that the moving route is complicated and the scheduling is difficult in the routing buffer of the bus in the manufacturing workshop, a routing buffer mathematical programming model for bus manufacturing workshop is proposed. We design a moving approach for minimising the total setup cost for moving in routing buffer. The framework and the solution of the optimisation problem of such a bus manufacturing workshop scheduling with routing buffer are presented. The evaluation results show that, compared with the irregularly guided moving method, the proposed method can provide a better guide line for the bus movement in the routing buffer by reducing the total setup time of all buses processed at the next stage, and a better scheduling optimisation solution with minimise maximum total completion time.

Keywords: bus manufacturing workshop; flexible flow shop scheduling; routing buffer; moving method.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2020.107325

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2020 Vol.15 No.3, pp.225 - 235

Received: 17 Aug 2018
Accepted: 08 Apr 2019
Published online: 15 May 2020 *

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