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Abstract

In today’s uncertain and competitive market, where manufacturing enterprises are subjected to increasingly shortened product lifecycles and frequent volume changes, reconfigurable manufacturing system (RMS) applications play significant roles in the success of the manufacturing industry. Despite the advantages offered by RMSs, achieving high efficiency constitutes a challenging task for stakeholders and decision makers when they face the trade-off decisions inherent in these complex systems. This study addresses work task and resource allocations to workstations together with buffer capacity allocation in an RMS. The aim is to simultaneously maximize throughput and to minimize total buffer capacity under fluctuating production volumes and capacity changes while considering the stochastic behavior of the system. An enhanced simulation-based multi-objective optimization (SMO) approach with customized simulation and optimization components is proposed to address the abovementioned challenges. Apart from presenting the optimal solutions subject to volume and capacity changes, the proposed approach supports decision makers with knowledge discovery to further understand RMS design. In particular, this study presents a customized SMO approach combined with a novel flexible pattern mining method for optimizing an RMS and conducts post-optimal analyses. To this extent, this study demonstrates the benefits of applying SMO and knowledge discovery methods for fast decision support and production planning of an RMS.

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Title
An Enhanced Simulation-Based Multi-Objective Optimization Approach with Knowledge Discovery for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
Author
Barrera-Diaz, Carlos Alberto 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Nourmohammadi, Amir 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Smedberg, Henrik 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Aslam, Tehseen 1 ; Ng, Amos H C 2 

 Division of Intelligent Production Systems, School of Engineering Science, University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, 54128 Skövde, Sweden 
 Division of Intelligent Production Systems, School of Engineering Science, University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, 54128 Skövde, Sweden; Division of Industrial Engineering and Management, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 256, 75105 Uppsala, Sweden 
First page
1527
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
22277390
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2791671622
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.