Aiding interactive configuration and planning: A constraint and evolutionary approach

Abstract

This communication aims to propose a two step interactive aiding system dealing with product configuration and production planning. The first step assists interactively and simultaneously the configuration of a product and the planning of its production process. Then a second step complete the two previous tasks thanks to a constrained multi-criteria optimisation that proposes to the user a set of solutions belonging to a Pareto front minimizing cost and cycle time. The first section of the paper introduces the problem. The second one proposes a solution for the first step relying on constraint filtering for both configuration and planning. The following ones propose an evolutionary optimisation process and first computation results. © 2010 IFIP.