Operators Health and Safety Consideration in Sustainable Multi-objective Process and Production Planning for Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS)

Nowadays, sustainable reconfigurable manufacturing systems (SRMS) are attracting interest from both the academic and industrial communities. This paper addresses the multi-objective process and production planning problem in the sustainable reconfigurable manufacturing environment. A multi-objective linear mixed-integer model is presented first. Second, to solve the problem, the $\varepsilon$-constraint and the weighted sum based-approaches are developed for the case of small and medium scenarios. To demonstrate the efficiency of the two approaches, several instances of the problem are experimented and the obtained results are analyzed using two metrics, namely cardinality of the Pareto fronts (CPF) and inverted generational distance (IGD). Finally, to help the decision-maker evaluating the best process and production plans, the TOPSIS method is applied.