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Hybrid scheduling and maintenance problem using artificial neural network based meta-heuristics

Mehdi Abedi (Department of Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran)
Hany Seidgar (Department of Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran)
Hamed Fazlollahtabar (Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran)

Journal of Modelling in Management

ISSN: 1746-5664

Article publication date: 14 August 2017

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a new mathematical model for the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with aging effects and multi-maintenance activities.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors assume that each machine may be subject to several maintenance activities over the scheduling horizon and a machine turn into its initial condition after maintenance activity and the aging effects start anew. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of early/tardy times of jobs and maintenance costs.

Findings

As this problem is proven to be non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard), the authors employed imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) and genetic algorithm (GA) as solution approaches, and the parameters of the proposed algorithms are calibrated by a novel parameter tuning tool called Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The computational results clarify that GA performs better than ICA in quality of solutions and computational time.

Originality/value

Predictive maintenance (PM) activities carry out the operations on machines and tools before the breakdown takes place and it helps to prevent failures before they happen.

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Citation

Abedi, M., Seidgar, H. and Fazlollahtabar, H. (2017), "Hybrid scheduling and maintenance problem using artificial neural network based meta-heuristics", Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 525-550. https://doi.org/10.1108/JM2-02-2016-0011

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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