Na, Byungsoo; Ahmed, Shabbir; Nemhauser, George; Sokol, Joel - In: International Journal of Production Economics 145 (2013) 2, pp. 561-572
manufactured on float glass lines. New technologies are allowing float glass manufacturers to increase the level of automation in … sequencing problems. In this paper we consider a float line with a fully automated offloading process using robots to pick up … glass plates from the float line. The continuous nature of the process causes some glass to be wasted if it is cut but …