Energy-aware integrated process planning and scheduling for job shops

M. Dai, D. Tang, Y. Xu, Weidong Li

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    Abstract

    Process planning that is based on environmental consciousness and energy-efficient scheduling currently plays a critical role in sustainable manufacturing processes. Despite their interrelationship, these two topics have often been considered to be independent of each other. It therefore would be beneficial to integrate process planning and scheduling for an integrated energy-efficient optimisation of product design and manufacturing in a sustainable manufacturing system. This article proposes an energy-aware mathematical model for job shops that integrates process planning and scheduling. First, a mixed integrated programming model with performance indicators such as energy consumption and scheduling makespan is established to describe a multi-objective optimisation problem. Because the problem is strongly non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), a modified genetic algorithm is adopted to explore the optimal solution (Pareto solution) between energy consumption and makespan. Finally, case studies of energy-aware integrated process planning and scheduling are performed, and the proposed algorithm is compared with other methods. The approach is shown to generate interesting results and can be used to improve the energy efficiency of sustainable manufacturing processes at the process planning and scheduling levels.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)13-26
    JournalProceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
    Volume229
    Issue number1
    Early online date29 Oct 2014
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2015

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    Keywords

    • Sustainable manufacturing
    • process planning and scheduling
    • energy consumption
    • makespan
    • genetic algorithm

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