Title
Data-Driven Dispatching Rules Mining And Real-Time Decision-Making Methodology In Intelligent Manufacturing Shop Floor With Uncertainty
Abstract
In modern manufacturing industry, the methods supporting real-time decision-making are the urgent requirement to response the uncertainty and complexity in intelligent production process. In this paper, a novel closed-loop scheduling framework is proposed to achieve real-time decision making by calling the appropriate data-driven dispatching rules at each rescheduling point. This framework contains four parts: offline training, online decision-making, data base and rules base. In the offline training part, the potential and appropriate dispatching rules with managers' expectations are explored successfully by an improved gene expression program (IGEP) from the historical production data, not just the available or predictable information of the shop floor. In the online decision-making part, the intelligent shop floor will implement the scheduling scheme which is scheduled by the appropriate dispatching rules from rules base and store the production data into the data base. This approach is evaluated in a scenario of the intelligent job shop with random jobs arrival. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperformed the existing well-known single and combination dispatching rules or the discovered dispatching rules via metaheuristic algorithm in term of makespan, total flow time and tardiness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21144836
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data-driven, machine learning, dispatching rules, offline training, online decision-making
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
14
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liping Zhang100.34
Yifan Hu200.34
Qiuhua Tang300.68
Jie Li4223.85
Zhixiong Li501.01