Bus manufacturing workshop scheduling method with routing buffer

Aiming at solving the problem that the moving route is complicated and the scheduling is difficult in the routing buffer of the bus in the manufacturing workshop, a routing buffer mathematical programming model for bus manufacturing workshop is proposed. We design a moving approach for minimising the total setup cost for moving in routing buffer. The framework and the solution of the optimisation problem of such a bus manufacturing workshop scheduling with routing buffer are presented. The evaluation results show that, compared with the irregularly guided moving method, the proposed method can provide a better guide line for the bus movement in the routing buffer by reducing the total setup time of all buses processed at the next stage, and a better scheduling optimisation solution with minimise maximum total completion time.