Real-time scheduling for hybrid flowshop in ubiquitous manufacturing environment》.pdf

Computers Industrial Engineering 84 (2015) 12–23 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Computers Industrial Engineering journal homepage: /locate/caie Real-time scheduling for hybrid flowshop in ubiquitous manufacturing environment Hao Luo a,b,⇑, Ji Fang b, George Q. Huang b a College of Economics, Shenzhen University, China b HKU-ZIRI Laboratory for Physical Internet, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: This paper discusses the implementation of RFID technologies, which enable the shop floor visibility and Available online 12 October 2014 reduce uncertainties in the real-time scheduling for hybrid flowshop (HFS) production. In the real-time HFS environment, the arriving of new jobs is dynamic, while the processes in work stages are not contin- Keywords: uous. The decision makers in shop floor level and stage level have different objectives. Therefore, classical Real-time scheduling off-line HFS scheduling approaches cannot be used under these situations. In this research, two major Hybrid flowshop measures are taken to deal with these specific real-time features. Firstly, a ubiquitous manufacturing Ubiquitous manufacturing (UM) environment is created by deploying advanced wireless devices into value-adding points for the collection and synchronization of real-time shop floor data. Secondly, a