The sponsor of the thesis is the Composite Unit of AIRBUS Nantes plant, which manufactures aircraft composite. The basic process to manufacture composite parts is to lay-up raw composite material on a tool and involves very costly means and raw material.
This process can be modeled as a two-stage hybrid flow shop problem with specific constraints, particularly prescription constraints on the jobs.
This thesis restates the practical problem as a scheduling problem by doing hypotheses and restrictions. Then, it designs a mathematical model based on time-indexed variables. This model has been implemented in an IP solver to solve real based scenarios. A heuristic algorithm is developed for obtaining good solutions quickly. Finally, the heuristic is used to increase the execution speed of the IP solver. This thesis concludes by a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of each option (IP solver vs. heuristic software) for the sponsor. / Master of Science
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/9659 |
| Date | 08 January 2004 |
| Creators | Simonneau, Nicolas |
| Contributors | Industrial and Systems Engineering, Shewchuk, John P., Deisenroth, Michael P., Dauzere-Peres, Stephane |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | ETDSimonneau_v2.pdf |
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