This paper presents a study for a production scheduling problem in a textile company, specifically in the weaving preparation area. Basically, the processing orders can be considered as sequential working steps trough three operations (charging - weaving - discharging), and the goal is to minimize time variation and to avoid delays. The machine utilization should be as higher as possible due to short delivering deadlines. The production unit has got 4 of these weaving machines functioning at the same time. Four dispatching rules were tested in order to find the best solution. The optimization procedure highlighted some interesting issues that are discussed in this paper
This work focused mainly on the production programming problem in the weaving preparation area of a textile company. The production function became a main concern faced by managers once new problems arise due to the huge number of products and the uncertainty on demand. These two factors reduce the company productivity and competitiveness
Nowadays, a large number of companies are changing their production systems to this new reality. There are several tools in the market to support the decision to plan and control the production. Programming the production is an important concern to the companies because they want to maximize the utilization of their resources, increasing productivity without compromising flexibility. However, this is a well known hard problem with a high level of complexity, where a mathematical solution could not be obtained in a short time period.
In this paper we present a study to solve this production scheduling problem. We present a decision support system based on heuristic rules and a simulation model.
The main objective of the production schedule is to define the sequence of the jobs that involve three operations (loading – weaving – unloading) in order to minimize time variation and to avoid delays. The machine utilization should be as higher as possible due to short delivering deadlines. The production unit has got 4 of these weaving machines, functioning as parallel machines.
A literature review has been performed in order to identify related heuristics to schedule the orders. The selected and applied heuristics were: SPT (Shortest Processing Time), NOB (Number Of Bobbins), EDD (Earliest Due Date) and FAP (Family Articles Processing). Based on those dispatching rules, manufacturing orders were sorted and performance evaluated accordingly. Results were evaluated in a simulation model using Arena software, in order to make the acceptance or rejection of heuristics considering the numerical results and the model animation helped model validation by the company decision makers.
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