Shop orders scheduling: dispatching rules and genetic algorithms based approaches

In the wide context of production planning a critical role is played by the operative programming, or short period production planning, whose results affect considerably the production system performances. The research work presented in this paper is focused on the Shop Orders scheduling problem into a real manufacturing system using dispatching rules and genetic algorithms based approaches supported by Modelling & Simulation. The objective is to verify the behaviour of different dispatching rules as well as to test the potentialities of production planning guidelines obtained by using genetic algorithms.