Short-Time Production Scheduling and Parts Routing for Flexible Assembly Lines


The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), Vol. 2, No. 6, pp. 823-830, Nov. 1995
10.3745/KIPSTE.1995.2.6.823,   PDF Download:

Abstract

A reactive piloting policy for Flexible Assembly Lines (FAL) is proposed, where the sequencing of the operations as well as the assignment of tasks to manipulators are not predetermined but driven by the actual state of the FAL. For all work-in process coming from a manipulator, the next destination is determined by minimizing a temporal criterion taking into account the time needed to reach the destination, the load of the manipulator to reach, the duration of the operation to be completed in the destination manipulator, and the availability of product components in this manipulator. The purpose of proposed piloting policy is to manufacture a given quantity of products as rapidly as possible by balancing the amount of work allocated to manipulators and to reduce the efforts required for scheduling the production of short series of diversified products. After introducing the characteristics of assembly processes and FAL modelization, the proposed algorithm is evaluated by simulations. The simulations of the proposed algorithm showed satisfactory results.


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[IEEE Style]
S. O. Keun, "Short-Time Production Scheduling and Parts Routing for Flexible Assembly Lines," The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 823-830, 1995. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1995.2.6.823.

[ACM Style]
Shin Ok Keun. 1995. Short-Time Production Scheduling and Parts Routing for Flexible Assembly Lines. The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society (1994 ~ 2000), 2, 6, (1995), 823-830. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTE.1995.2.6.823.