Multiple Objective Scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Petri Nets
Seong-Jin Yim, Doo-Yong Lee · Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A · 1997
This paper presents an approach to multiple objective scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems(FMS). The approach is an extension of the scheduling method that formulates scheduling problems using Petrinets, and applies heuristic search to find optimal or near-optimal schedules with a single objective. New evaluation functions are developed to optimize simultaneously the makespan and the total operating cost. A scheduling example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.