Title: A simulated annealing algorithm for aggregate production planning with considering of ancillary costs

Authors: Mojtaba Kaveh; Vahid Majazi Dalfard

Addresses: Departments of Business Administration, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad Branch, Firoozabad 74715, Iran ' Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, Vienna 1210, Austria

Abstract: In this paper, aggregate production planning model has been presented that considers maintenance time and costs. In the proposed model, optimal production and optimal time of preventive maintenance are concurrently determined. To validate the model and to study effects of maintenance on the aggregate production planning model, one can reduce total cost by integrating these two models with the help of numerical examples that was solved by parallel simulated annealing algorithm. The results showed that the applied simulated annealing algorithm was much more effective than the solutions obtained by Gams.22.

Keywords: aggregate production planning; APP; integrated modelling; simulated annealing; ancillary costs; maintenance time; maintenance costs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMOR.2014.063163

International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, 2014 Vol.6 No.4, pp.474 - 490

Received: 21 Nov 2012
Accepted: 05 Apr 2013
Published online: 26 Jul 2014 *

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