Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
Volume 114, Issue 1, Pages 363-375Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2007.02.052
Keywords
metaheuristics; VNS; glass container industry; production planning and scheduling; color changeover
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Inspired by a case study, this paper reports a successful application of VNS to the production planning and scheduling problem that arises in the glass container industry. This is a multi-facility production system, where each facility has a set of furnaces where the glass paste is produced in order to meet the demand, being afterwards distributed to a set of parallel molding machines. Since the neighborhoods used are not nested, they are not ordered by increasing sizes, but by means of a new empirical measure to assess the distance between any two solutions. Neighborhood sizes decrease significantly through-out the search thus suggesting the use of a scheme in which efficiency is placed. over effectiveness in a first step, and the opposite in a second step. We test this variant as well as other two with a real-world problem instance from our case study. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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