Applying a hybrid job shop procedure to a Belgian manufacturing company producing industrial wheels and castors in rubber
Sels, Veronique Steen, Frederic Vanhoucke, Mario
Sels, Veronique
Steen, Frederic
Vanhoucke, Mario
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2011
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Computers and Industrial Engineering
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61
Publication Issue
3
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697
Publication End page
708
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In this paper, several methods for job shop scheduling are combined, adjusted and successfully applied to a real-world scheduling problem at a Belgian manufacturer producing industrial wheels and castors in rubber. The procedure is an extension of a hybrid shifting bottleneck procedure with a tabu search algorithm while incorporating various company specific constraints. The various extensions to cope with the company specific constraints have a strong similarity with the complex job shop problem formulation of Mason, Fowler, and Carlyle (2002). The new procedure is used as a simulation engine to test the relevance of various scenarios in order to improve the current planning approach of the company. A detailed computational experiment highlights the main contribution of the novel procedure for the company.
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Operations & Supply Chain Management