A Bi-objective Model for a Flowshop Scheduling Problem with Availability Constraint of Machines

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 This paper presents a new bi-objective mathematical model for a permutation flowshop scheduling problem with availability constraint in case of preventive maintenance operations on machines. In this paper, preventive maintenance is flexible and there is not a certain time for the maintenance operation; however, time between two consecutive maintenance operations for each machine should not be greater than a given time. The model has two objectives; (1) minimizing the makespan (i.e., Cmax) and, (2) minimizing the sum of earliness and tardiness simultaneously. This study reports the results obtained by the Reservation Level Tchebycheff Procedure (RLTP) and the ε-constraint method for solving a case study problem. The results show high quality of reached solutions from RLTP in comparison with the ε-constraint method.

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Advances in Industrial Engineering
Volume 48, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
October 2014
Pages 189-200

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