IJCRRI Journ Cur Res ReInternational Journal of Current Research and ReviewI Journ Cur Res Re2231-21960975-5241Radiance Research Academy1548TechnologyFLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM SCHEDULING BY USING A GENETIC ALGORITHAM TarunDittakaviSrikanthAnnamareddyRaoMedikondu Nageswara15122012)142151This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 20092009This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.

The paper is addresses the how genetic algorithms (GA__ampersandsign#39;s) can be applied to scheduling jobs for simple manufacturing shop models, this paper shows how they can be used to schedule jobs for some of the more complex standard models. The simplicity of the methods presented, and the use of proprietary spreadsheet software and GA __ampersandsign#39;add-in__ampersandsign#39; to implement them, support the conjecture that GA__ampersandsign#39;s can provide a highly flexible and user-friendly solution to the general shop scheduling problem.

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