PROMETHEE vs. OptQuest for simulation-based multi-objective optimisation approach in flexible manufacturing systems

Abdessalem Jerbi and Mohamed Ali Elleuch

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2025, vol. 49, issue 2, 139-157

Abstract: Flexible manufacturing system design is a complex problem because of its stochastic nature, especially when there are multiple optimisation objectives to consider. For this reason, various studies have relied on discrete event simulation tools to create and evaluate the flexible manufacturing system's performance using multi-objective optimisation methods. However, the literature lacks comparative studies of these different methods in the flexible manufacturing systems optimisation context. This paper aims to compare the two optimisation methods, PROMETHEE and OptQuest, based on multi-objective efficiency. PROMETHEE is based on ranking simulation results, while OptQuest is an iterative method using a meta-heuristic. This comparison showed that OptQuest is the best-performing method.

Keywords: discrete event simulation; DES; multi-objective optimisation method; simulation-based; OptQuest; PROMETHEE; flexible manufacturing systems; FMS. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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