Global competition has engendered a trend among companies towards continuously improving operations so that they can provide customers the right products in the right quantities at the right times. In modern manufacturing the trend is the development of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, CIM technologies which is a computerized integration of manufacturing activities (Design, Planning, Scheduling and Control) produces right products at right time to react quickly to the global competitive market demands. The productivity of CIM is highly depending upon the scheduling of Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). Shorting the makespan leads to decreasing machines idle time which results improvement in CIM productivity. Conventional methods of solving scheduling problems based on priority rules still result schedules, sometimes, with significant idle times. To optimize these, the pages in this dissertation model the problem of a flowshop scheduling with the objective of minimizing the make span. The work proposed here deal with the production planning problem of a flexible manufacturing system. These pages model the problem of a flowshop scheduling with the objective of minimizing the make span.

TITLE - MODELISTIC SOLUTION APPROACH FOR FLOWSHOP SCHEDULING PROBLEMS ON MAKESPAN CRITERION BY HEURISTICS MODELS
AUTHOR - AJAY KUMAR AGARWAL
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UNIVERSITY - MANAV BHARTI UNIVERSITY, SOLAN (HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA)
GUIDE NAME -
MR. RAJAN GARG