Evolving fuzzy rules for due-date assignment problem in semiconductor manufacturing factory

This paper presents a fuzzy modeling method proposed by Wang and Mendel for generation of fuzzy rules using data generated from a simulated model that is built from a real factory located in Hsin-Chu science-based park of Taiwan, R.O.C. The fuzzy modeling method is further evolved by a genetic algorithm for due-date assignment problem in manufacturing. By using simulated data, the effectiveness of the proposed method is shown and compared with two other soft computing techniques: multi-layer perceptron neural networks and case-based reasoning. The comparative results indicate that the proposed method is consistently superior to the other two methods.