Optimisation problems of networking manufacturing processes

Abstract

The globalization of economy and market led to increased networking in the field of manufacturing. The processes of these manufacturing including logistics became more and more complex. This paper aims to report design aspects of networking manufacturing focusing on NP-hard optimisation problems. The authors describe general models of logistic processes of networking manufacturing systems and present heuristic algorithms to solve the optimisation problems focusing on the solution of knapsack and traveling salesman problems with harmony search and firefly algorithms.