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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of selected scheduling dispatching rules on the performance of an actual CIM system using different performance measures and to compare the results with the literature. Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, a computer...
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Purpose: In an increasingly competitive business environment, machine reliability problem merits special attention in operations of manufacturing cells. This is mainly due to flow line nature of the cellular layout, interdependency of downstream and upstream of machines related to each other....
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We consider the scheduling problem of cyclic production in a bufferless dual-gripper robot cell processing a family of identical parts. The objective is to find an optimal sequence of robot moves so as to maximize the long-run average throughput rate of the cell. While there has been a...
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Manufacturing Systems, Manufacturing Processes, Product State, Accumulating State Vector, Quality, Machine Learning, Feature Selection, Holistic Data and Information Management. - The developed concept allows identifying relevant state drivers of complex, multi-stage manufacturing systems...
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This paper is concerned with the optimal production planning in a dynamic stochastic manufacturing system consisting of a single machine that is failure prone and facing a constant demand. The objective is to choose the rate of production over time in order to minimize the long-run average cost...
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The buffer allocation problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, and it is an important design problem in manufacturing systems. The research proposed in this paper concerns a product line consisting of n unreliable machines with n − 1 buffers and a preventive maintenance...
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solutions of such problems through exact methods are difficult. Hence, a meta-heuristic Genetic algorithm is used to optimize …
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days ahead. To solve this dilemma, we present a simulation-based genetic algorithm, which creates a roster with flexible …) extended by manual operations. Our algorithm iteratively uses reasonable solutions of the JSP as basis for roster optimization … repair operators in the genetic algorithm. We demonstrate the efficiency of our heuristic approach by comparison to rigid …
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This paper is concerned with an asymptotic analysis of hierarchical production and setup scheduling in a stochastic manufacturing system consisting of a single failure-prone machine and facing constant demands for a number of products. At any given time the system can only produce one type of...
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