Seeing that the processing time is uncertain in the actual manufacturing workshop
a multi-objective fuzzy flexible job shop scheduling model is established
and then an effective multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is proposed to solve this model.First
a method of mixing different machine allocation and operation sequencing strategies is adopted to generate initial population and a well-designed greedy inserting algorithm is adopted for chromosome decoding.Second
a Pareto dominant relation based on possibility degree and a modified crowding distance measure in decision space are defined and further employed to improve the fast nondominated sorting.Moreover
a problem-specific local search based on fuzzy critical path theory is incorporated into MOEA.Afterwards
the influence of key parameters is investigated based on the Taguchi method of experiment.Finally
extensive comparison with three existing algorithms is carried out
and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.