Production scheduling for parallel machines

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This book presents a comparison of hybrid solution methods for integrated multi-machine production sizing and scheduling problems with sequence-dependent setups. The proposed methods are based on the decomposition of the problem into 2 levels: In the first level, the assignment of jobs to machines and their sequencing is performed via genetic algorithms, the solution obtained at this level is used to determine the sizing of batches and inventories in the second level in an exact way using the branch and cut method.The results showed the variant based on the Teaching-learning based optimization (TLBO) algorithm as the best in performance with a good solution quality in a reasonable computation time.