Because of the limitations of the mathematical model, optimization-based tools work best in simple straight-forward applications with few complex constraints. The problem with this is that the resulting schedules are often infeasible in the actual system due to the constraints that have been ignored by the scheduling tool. sequence dependent setup times) to keep the required computational time for the search algorithm within acceptable limits. Even within the capabilities of the mathematical model it is often necessary to omit details of the facility (e.g. complex material handling such as the movement of AGV’s or multiple overlapping cranes.
However, this mathematical model has a limited structure and cannot capture all constraints e.g. The mathematical model describes the resource constraints of the system, and in some cases may include details such as sequence dependent setup times for a resource. The algorithm (sometimes referred to as a solver) searches based on a mathematical model of the production system that is configured during the installation of the software. an hour) for the algorithmic search and the best solution found during that search time is used as the schedule. The quality of the final answer will be limited by how much time is allowed for the algorithm to search for better solutions. These tools generally strive first to generate a feasible schedule, and then improve on that schedule by exploring variations of the feasible schedule to improve performance measures. There are no guarantees of the quality of the schedule compared to other possible schedules or the computational time that might be required to get to a feasible or good schedule. Optimization-based Schedulingĭespite their name, optimization-based scheduling tools use heuristic approaches that attempt to generate a solution that satisfies a list of mathematical constraints, and also provides some reasonable performance on key measures such as the number of tardy jobs.
In this white paper we will briefly compare the optimization and simulation based approaches to the scheduling problem. The best that can be hoped for with this class of problems is a “good” solution that is better and easier to obtain than trying to manually generate a solution using Excel or a planning board. As a result, all scheduling solutions make use of heuristics and hence none produce an optimal solution (regardless of what vendors might suggest). In non-mathematical terms these are the hardest of the hard computational problems for which no practical optimal algorithms exist. Scheduling problems are typically large and complex and they are classified mathematically in a group of problems referred to as NP-Hard (non-deterministic polynomial-time hard).
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