A comparison of four methods for minimizing total tardiness on a single processor with sequence dependent setup times

Keah-Choon Tan, Ram Narasimhan, Paul A. Rubin and Gary L. Ragatz

Omega, 2000, vol. 28, issue 3, 313-326

Abstract: Much of the research on operations scheduling problems has either ignored setup times or assumed that setup times on each machine are independent of the job sequence. This paper considers the problem of scheduling a single machine for minimizing total tardiness in a sequence dependent setup environment. The comparative performance of branch-and-bound, genetic search, simulated annealing and random-start pairwise interchange was evaluated in this problem setting. The experimental results suggest that simulated annealing and random-start pairwise interchange are viable solution techniques that can yield good solutions to a large combinatorial problem when considering the tardiness objective with sequence dependent setup times. However, branch-and-bound may be the preferred solution technique in solving smaller problems, and it is the only solution technique tested that will confirm an optimum solution has been reached. The methods considered in this research offer promise to deal with a class of scheduling problems, which have been considered difficult by both researchers and practitioners.

Keywords: Scheduling; Sequence; dependent; setup; times; Tardiness; Branch-and-bound; Genetic; search; Simulated; annealing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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