Scheduling for improving productivity of the automated manufacturing system

In this paper jobshop scheduling problem was considered on automated manufacturing systems with the closed loop and unidirectional material handling system. The objective of this research is to develop and evaluate heuristic scheduling procedures to improve productivity by minimizing makespan. Especially travel time of material handling system as well as processing time was considered in the proposed algorithms, A new heuristic algorithms are proposed and illustrates the proposed algorithm. The heuristic algorithms are implemented for various cases. The results show that the proposed algorithms provide better solutions in productivity, frequency, job waiting time and the number of waiting jobs than the random scheduling algorithm.