NDLI: Tool requirements planning in a flexible manufacturing system with an automatic tool transporter

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yeong-Dae Kim Geun-Cheol Lee Seong-Kook Choi Seung-Kil Lim
Copyright Year	1989
Abstract	We consider a tool requirements planning problem in a flexible manufacturing system with an automatic tool transporter. The problem considered here is that of determining the number of tool copies of each tool type with the objective of minimizing total tardiness of orders with distinct due dates for a given budget for tool purchase. For the problem, several heuristic algorithms are developed using greedy search methods and simulation. In the heuristic algorithms, the numbers of tool copies for certain tool types are increased until they cannot be increased any more because of the budget limit. Simulation results are used to determine search directions or to select tool types of which the numbers of copies are to be increased. Computational experiments are performed on randomly generated test problems and results show that a good tool requirements plan can be obtained with the heuristic algorithms in a reasonable amount of computation time.
Starting Page	795
Ending Page	804
Page Count	10
File Size	215528
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1042296X
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	6
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2001-12-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Flexible manufacturing systems Delay effects Manufacturing systems Heuristic algorithms Job shop scheduling Transportation Processor scheduling Automatic control Control systems Search methods
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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