Production and Resource Scheduling in Mass Customization with Dependent Setup Consideration

Abstract

Mass customization has been implemented in services and manufactures to increase the competitiveness of companies. In a manufacturing company, the procedure for production and resource scheduling has to be changed to adapt to mass customization. A good production and resource scheduling will contribute to the success of mass customization. This paper addresses the problem of production and resource scheduling for a production system with dependent setup and internal transportation such as AGVs in a mass customization environment. A constraint-programming-based methodology is developed to satisfy the customer demands on-time. An example is presented to illustrate the performance of the proposed methodology.