International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering
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Radhika Sajjaa* and Ch. Srinivasa Raob

aDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, RVR & JC College of Engineering (Autonomous), Chowdavaram, Guntur, India
bDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, AU College of Engineering (Autonomous), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India 


 

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Master Production Schedule (MPS) plays an important role in the specifications of optimization levels of resources for production. MPS describes what is to be produced and also refers to the time in which the production is scheduled to be completed. The creation of MPS becomes complex when objectives like maximization of service level, resource utilization and minimization of inventory levels, overtime, chance of occurring stock outs, setup times etc. are considered. Such multi objective parameter optimization problems can effectively be solved using the nature inspired population based algorithms. Differential Evolution (DE) is one such most powerful parameter optimization algorithm, which doesn’t require many control parameters. This work proposes a new Multi-objective Optimization for MPS using Differential Evolution (MOOMDE). The MOOMDE is applied to a benchmark problem and the results demonstrate that the use of D

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E yields the most optimal solution for MPS problems.


Keywords: Master production scheduling; multi-objective optimization; differential evolution; mutation schemes.


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ARTICLE INFORMATION


Received: 2013-05-29
Revised: 2013-11-02
Accepted: 2013-11-21
Available Online: 2014-03-01


Cite this article:

Sajja, R., Rao, C.S. 2014. A new Multi-Objective optimization of master production scheduling problems using differential evolution. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, 12, 75–86. https://doi.org/10.6703/IJASE.2014.12(1).75