Process planning and scheduling are one of the most im- portant functions to support flexible planning in a manufacture. The planning and scheduling should be solved simultaneously and not se- quential for productivity improvements in manufacturing. In this paper, we propose an optimization tool based on genetic algorithm (GA) ap- proach to help person in charge of process planning and scheduling to find the most promising sequence of operations considering a choice of machines on which to perform the operations. Minimizing makespan is the evaluation criteria.
['Mathieu Bettwy', 'Karine Deschinkel', 'Samuel Gomes']
An Optimization Tool for Process Planning and Scheduling