MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY JOB SHOP FLOOR DECISIONS THROUGH HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM

Abstract

This article addresses flexible manufacturing system (FMS) Performance is likely to improve with employment of various resources efficiently. Initially simultaneous scheduling problems are solved by means of priority rules like first come first serve (FCFS), shortest processing time (SPT) and longest processing time (LPT) to find out the operational completion time for 120 problems. Later gene rearrangement genetic algorithm (HGA) is implemented for same set of problems with makespan as objective and the results are compared with the results of priority rules. The results are performed well by using HGA.  The same HGA is used to find the finest optimal sequence that minimize the operational completion time.