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Integrated planning and scheduling of engineer-to-order projects using a Lamarckian Layered Genetic Algorithm

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  • Neumann, Anas
  • Hajji, Adnene
  • Rekik, Monia
  • Pellerin, Robert

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This paper presents a new mathematical formulation for planning and scheduling activities of Engineer-To-Order (ETO) projects. It includes a new ETO strategy to reduce two principal impacts of the design uncertainty inherent in the ETO context: waste (of time and resources) and schedule instability. Our optimization approach is based on a two-level decision process to address, either sequentially or separately, the initial planning and the rescheduling stages. We also propose a hybrid Layered Genetic Algorithm combined with an adaptive Lamarckian learning process (LLGA). LLGA uses a new genetic representation (encoding format and decoding method) and a new cycle-avoidance procedure that guarantees solutions feasibility. LLGA is compared to the branch-and-cut procedure of CPLEX run on the proposed mathematical model on randomly generated instances with up to 340 operations. Our mathematical model shows a good performance for small and medium-sized instances, especially for the rescheduling stage. This performance deteriorates for larger instances (larger computing times and out-of-memory problems). However, the proposed heuristic is computationally stable and yields good-quality solutions in a reasonable computing time without requiring a large memory space. Our experiments also demonstrate the merits of our new ETO strategy in improving the robustness of the solutions.

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  • Neumann, Anas & Hajji, Adnene & Rekik, Monia & Pellerin, Robert, 2024. "Integrated planning and scheduling of engineer-to-order projects using a Lamarckian Layered Genetic Algorithm," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 267(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:proeco:v:267:y:2024:i:c:s0925527323003092
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.109077
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