A multi-objective particle swarm optimisation for integrated configuration design and scheduling in reconfigurable manufacturing system

Jianping Dou, Jun Li, Dan Xia and Xia Zhao

International Journal of Production Research, 2021, vol. 59, issue 13, 3975-3995

Abstract: To provide accurate capacity and functionality needed for each demand period (DP), a reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) is able to change its configuration with time. For the RMS with multi-part flow line configuration that concurrently produces multiple parts within the same family, the cost and delivery time are dependent on its configuration and relating scheduling for any DP. So far, the study on solution method for the integrated optimisation problem of configuration design and scheduling for RMS is scarce. To efficiently find solutions with tradeoffs between total cost and tardiness, a multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (MoPSO) based on crowding distance and external Pareto solution archive is presented to solve practical-sized problems. The devised encoding and decoding methods along with the particle updating mechanism of MoPSO ensure any particle a feasible solution. The comparison between MoPSO and ε-constraint method versus small-sized cases illustrates the effectiveness of MoPSO. The comparative results between MoPSO and nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) against eight problems show that the MoPSO outperforms the NSGA-II in both solution quality and computation efficiency for the integrated optimisation problem.

Date: 2021
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