In the present study, investigations are carried out for the sustainable multi-objective scheduling of automatic guided vehicle and flexible manufacturing system by the application of a grey wolf optimization algorithm (GWO). | Sustainable multi-objective scheduling for automatic guided vehicle and flexible manufacturing system by a grey wolf optimization algorithm International Journal of Data and Network Science 2018 27 40 Contents lists available at GrowingScience International Journal of Data and Network Science homepage ijds Sustainable multi-objective scheduling for automatic guided vehicle and flexible manufacturing system by a grey wolf optimization algorithm V. K. Chawlaa Arindam Kumar Chandab and Surjit Angrac a Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women India b . Pant Engineering College India c NIT Kurukshetra India CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history The simultaneous scheduling decisions between production systems and material handling sys- Received January 1 2018 tems are highly significant for a substantial reduction in makespan and improvement in throughput Received in revised format June of flexible manufacturing system resources. In the absence of appropriate scheduling of produc- 16 2018 tion resources the optimum utilization of FMS resources is not harnessed which turns into wast- Accepted June 20 2018 Available online age of resources. In the present study investigations are carried out for the sustainable multi- June 20 2018 objective scheduling of automatic guided vehicle and flexible manufacturing system by the appli- Keywords cation of a grey wolf optimization algorithm GWO . Initially the Giffler and Thompson GT Automatic guided vehicles algorithm Giffler B. amp Thompson G. L. 1960 . Algorithms for solving production-scheduling Flexible manufacturing system problems. Operations research 8 4 487-503. along with four different priority hybrid dispatch- Grey wolf optimization ing rules PHDRs are applied for the development of the production center schedule thereafter Sustainable multi-objective sched- the grey wolf optimization algorithm is applied for the yield of the sustainable multi-objective uling scheduling of automatic .
