Scheduling parallel CNC machines with time/cost trade-off considerations

Date
2007
Authors
Gurel, S.
Akturk, M. S.
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Instructor
Source Title
Computers & Operations Research
Print ISSN
0305-0548
Electronic ISSN
1873-765X
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
34
Issue
9
Pages
2774 - 2789
Language
English
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Article
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Abstract

When the processing times of jobs are controllable, selected processing times affect both the manufacturing cost and the scheduling performance. A well-known example for such a case that this paper specifically deals with is the turning operation on a CNC machine. Manufacturing cost of a turning operation is a nonlinear convex function of its processing time. We also know that scheduling decisions are quite sensitive to the processing times. Therefore, this paper considers minimizing total manufacturing cost (F1) and total completion time (F2) objectives simultaneously on identical parallel CNC turning machines. Since decreasing processing time of a job increases its manufacturing cost, we cannot minimize both objectives at the same time, so the problem is to generate non-dominated solutions. We consider the problem of minimizing F1 subject to a given F2 level and give an effective formulation for the problem. For this problem, we prove some optimality properties which facilitated designing an efficient heuristic algorithm to generate approximate non-dominated solutions. Computational results show that proposed algorithm performs almost equal with the GAMS/MINOS commercial solver although it spends much less computation time.

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Keywords
Parallel machine scheduling, Controllable processing times, CNC machines, Manufacturing cost, Total completion time
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