An optimal path in a bi-criteria AGV-based flexible jobshop manufacturing system having uncertain parameters

Hamed Fazlollahtabar and Nezam Mahdavi-Amiri

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2013, vol. 13, issue 1, 27-55

Abstract: We propose an approach for finding an optimal path in a flexible jobshop manufacturing system considering two criteria of time and cost. With rise in demands, advancement in technology and increase in production capacity, the need for more shops persists. Therefore, a flexible jobshop system has more than one shop with the same duty. The difference among shops with the same duty is in their machines with various specifications. A network is configured in which the nodes are considered to be the shops with arcs representing the paths among the shops. An automated guided vehicle functions as a material handling device through the manufacturing network. To account for uncertainty, we consider time to be a triangular fuzzy number and apply an expert system to infer cost. The objective is to find a path minimising both the time and cost criteria, aggregately. Since time and cost have different scales, a normalisation procedure is proposed to remove the scales. The model being biobjective, the analytical hierarchy process weighing method is applied to construct a single objective. Finally, a dynamic programming approach is presented for computing a shortest path in the network. The efficiency of the proposed approach is illustrated by a numerical example.

Keywords: flexible job shops; AGVs; automated guided vehicles; flexible manufacturing systems; FMS; fuzzy numbers; fuzzy logic; uncertainty; optimisation; materials handling; expert systems; analytical hierarchy process; AHP; dynamic programming; time; cost. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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