A Feedback Control Method for Addressing the Production Scheduling Problem by Considering Energy Consumption and Makespan

Jingjing Xu and Lei Wang
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Jingjing Xu: Faculty of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Lei Wang: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 7, 1-14

Abstract: Due to various factors of uncertainty within production, the key performance indicators connected to production plans are difficult to fulfil. This problem becomes especially serious as emission regulations are enforced, which discourage manufacturers from high emission output and high energy consumption. Thus, this paper proposes a feedback control method for the production scheduling problem by considering energy consumption and makespan to help manufacturers keep production implementations in pace with production plans. The proposed method works in a rolling horizon framework, which establishes planned energy consumption and makespan, and adjusts the weights of the multiple scheduling optimization objectives for the next period, based on the feedback of the actual energy consumption and makespan in previous periods. A job shop scheduling case study is provided to illustrate the proposed method. The experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed feedback control method.

Keywords: energy-aware manufacturing; feedback control; production scheduling; multi-objective optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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