Scheduling Production in the Flexible Packaging Industry Using Mathematical Models and Genetic Algorithms

Minimizing time wastage is a crucial objective for all production operations. Reliable manufacturing scheduling The objective is to mitigate time-based production waste caused by excessive processing, waiting, and transportation. Industry 4.0 promotes technological innovation across all industrial sectors to increase efficiency and effectiveness while preserving high competitiveness. The implementation of artificial intelligence in Industry 4.0 is expected to result in a reduction in time wastage. Non-dominance sequencing genetic algorithms (NSGA), genetic algorithms (GA), and evolutionary algorithms (EA) are the three most common scheduling approaches, according to literature-indexed research summaries from the past five years. The examination of production scheduling in the flexible packaging business, which involves the utilization of different machines and processes and is produced on demand, had not been conducted before in this study. A mathematical scheduling model will be developed in this research to ascertain the shortest production time span in the flexible packaging industry. As a form of technological innovation, this mathematical model will be utilized in experiments employing a genetic algorithm approach. For the genetic algorithm to generate a minimum makespan in the flexible packaging industry's production scheduling process.