RESEARCH ARTICLE

Remanufacturing planning based on constrained ordinal optimization

  • Chen SONG 1 ,
  • Xiaohong GUAN 2,3 ,
  • Qianchuan ZHAO 2 ,
  • Qing-Shan JIA , 2
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  • 1. Ubiquitous Energy Research Center, ENN Research and Development Corporation, Langfang 065001, China
  • 2. Center for Intelligent and Networked Systems, Department of Automation, TNLIST, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3. State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering (SKLMS Lab) and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Intelligent Network and Network Security (MOE KLINNS Lab), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Received date: 18 Mar 2011

Accepted date: 10 May 2011

Published date: 05 Sep 2011

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Resource planning for a remanufacturing system is in general extremely difficult in terms of problem size, uncertainties, complicated constraints, etc. In this paper, we present a new method based on constrained ordinal optimization (COO) for remanufacturing planning. The key idea of our method is to estimate the feasibility of plans by machine learning and to select a subset with the estimated feasibility based on the procedure of horse racing with feasibility model (HRFM). Numerical testing shows that our method is efficient and effective for selecting good plans with high probability. It is thus a scalable optimization method for large scale remanufacturing planning problems with complicated stochastic constraints.

Cite this article

Chen SONG , Xiaohong GUAN , Qianchuan ZHAO , Qing-Shan JIA . Remanufacturing planning based on constrained ordinal optimization[J]. Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2011 , 6(3) : 443 -452 . DOI: 10.1007/s11460-011-0162-y

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