This work was aimed at developing computational intelligence for scheduling a manufacturing cell’s tasks, based mainly on genetic algorithms. The manufacturing cell was modelled as being a production-line; the makespan was calculated by using heuristics adapted from several libraries for genetic algorithms computed in C++ builder.
Several problems dealing with small, medium and large list of jobs and machinery were resolved. The results were compared with other heuristics. The approach developed here would seem to be promising for future research concerning scheduling manufacturing cell tasks involving mixed batches.
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