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SMC Chapter Seminar on Real-time Scheduling of Production-Logistics of a Jobshop

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IEEE North Jersey Section-SMC Chapter Seminar

Title: Real-time Scheduling of Production-Logistics of a Jobshop

Speaker: Wenfeng Li, Ph.D. & Professor, Senior Member of IEEE

School of Logistics Engineering

Wuhan University of Technology

Wuhan, CHINA

Place: ECE 202

Time: 10:15-11:35, Tue., Jan. 21, 2020

Abstract: With the development of new IT technologies such as Internet of things, big data analytics, deep learning, and swarm intelligence, we come into the era of Industry 4.0, or Industrial Internet. As a part of industry, logistics are stepping into its 4.0 era, which is no doubt a kind of smart logistics. A new mode of flexible manufacturing, i.e., customization with a very small order, is discussed. Compared with traditional manufacturing, the layout is easy to reconfigure, and more AGVs are utilized. Logistics planning is a key part of jobshop scheduling. Cloud computing and edge computing are important techniques to support it. Event-driven real-time scheduling is discussed as a key technique for the new mode compared with traditional pre-scheduling. Three kinds of real-time scheduling are analyzed and compared. They are machine, AGV and order-driven. Several challenges are discussed such as data transmission, swarm intelligence and on-time optimization. Finally, the conclusions and future research direction are given.

Bio-sketch: Prof. Wenfeng Li is a senior member of IEEE (SM2012), IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is a Professor at the School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, CHINA. He worked as a visiting scholar at the Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden in 2003, a visiting professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2012, and a visiting professor at New York University in 2015, and at the University of New South Wales in Australia in 2019. He received his PhD degree from Wuhan University of Technology in 2000. He founded the Institute of Logistics and Robotics, the center of IoT and Logistics Technologies, and the International Joint Lab of Internet of Things. He and his research group have accomplished over 20 scientific research projects, with the fund from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), R&D project of MOST, etc. He has dedicated his research activities to industrial applications and set up two research laboratories on IoT and logistics research and application. He holds over 20 patents and has published about 300 academic papers and 6 academic books. He also supervised over 14 PhD students and 60 Master Students. With the contributions, Prof. Li has won several academic awards including Hubei 2005 Excellent Youth Scientist. He worked as a Co-Chair or TPC chair of 10 international conferences such as the International Working Group on Computer supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) in Design (2012 and 2015) and 2015 International Forum of IoT and Applications, and general chair of IDCS2016. His current research interests include swarm intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Robotics, and logistics systems. He has co-edited several international conference proceedings and three special issues for journals.