Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Job Rejection Policy and Rate-Modifying Preventive Maintenance Activities

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: The flexible job shop system is one of the most widely used scheduling systems in production environments, consistently attracting researchers' attention due to its diverse applications. Many studies in this field assume fixed and predetermined processing times. However, processing times can increase due to the deterioration effect, and after implementing rate-modifying activities (RMA), these times return to their original values. This study examines the flexible job shop scheduling system, considering job rejection policies, dual resource constraints (human and machine), and RMA maintenance activities.
Methods: The objective of flexible job shop scheduling is to assign each operation to a machine and a worker from a set of eligible machines and workers in a way that optimizes the sequence of operations on the machines. A mathematical model based on the mixed-integer linear programming approach was developed for this purpose. Literature review classifies the problem with the stated assumptions as NP-hard, making the use of meta-heuristic methods essential for finding near-optimal solutions. Thus, Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), Simulated Annealing (SA), and a combined VNS-SA algorithm were employed to solve the problem.
Results and discussion: Twenty sub-problems were analyzed, categorized into small, medium, and large-sized problems. The characteristics of each problem were defined by parameters such as the number of jobs, machines, workers, total operations, and buckets. Meta-heuristic methods, including VNS, SA, and their combination, were utilized to solve the problem. Seven neighborhood structures based on changes in assigned machines and workers, operation and job replacements, execution of RMA activities, and job acceptance/rejection were developed to enhance solution space exploration. The solution generation structure ensures feasibility within the flexible job shop system's requirements. The parameters of the meta-heuristic methods were tuned using the Taguchi method. Parameters related to the combined VNS-SA algorithm, such as initial temperature, number of neighborhood searches, and shake procedure counter, were reported. The results of the meta-heuristic methods were compared, and for small-sized problems, they were also compared with exact solutions.
Conclusion: The results of the twenty sub-problems solved using the three meta-heuristic approaches were compared statistically. The combined method of simulated annealing and variable neighborhood search showed superior performance in solving the problem.

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