Planning and scheduling of a parallel-machine production system subject to disruptions and physical distancing
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This paper aims to quantify the effects of production disruptions (PDs) and physical distancing constraints due to the pandemic in a parallel-machine production environment. The machines are non-identical and are utilized for producing a finite set of jobs (parts) in a plastic injection moulding production. The production process is subjected to random production downtime disruptions. A mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed for optimizing the joint production plan and schedule, which maximizes the production’s total benefit. The model is utilized to plan and schedule a set of 17 machines in a Canadian manufacturing company. To explore the effects of physical distancing and PDs on the production’s total net profit, four different scenarios for normal operation and production during the pandemic, with and without production downtimes, are considered. A genetic algorithm is utilized to solve the model. The results show that considering machines’ random breakdowns and physical distancing individually reduces the total profit of the production by 71.58 and 57.98%, respectively; while their joint effect results in a 88.54% reduction in the annual net profit.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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