Jaya Algorithm for Rescheduling Flexible Job Shop Problem with Machine Recovery

This work addresses on flexible job shop rescheduling problem with machine recovery. The goal is to minimize the maximum machine workload and instability simultaneously. As an almost parameter-free metaheuristic, Jaya is used and developed to solve it. A local search operator and an initializing rule are developed for improving Jaya’s performance. Ten cases from a remanufacturing company are solved to verify the proposed Jaya’s performance. The comparisons and discussions show the effectiveness of the proposed Jaya for rescheduling flexible job shop with machine recovery.