) is considered in this paper. The objective is to find a 1-unit cyclic sequence of robot moves that minimizes the long … by using a dual-gripper robot instead of a single-gripper robot are presented. It is shown that employing a dual …-gripper robot can lead to a significant gain in productivity. Operations managers can compare the resulting increase in revenue with …

dual-gripper switch time is less than twice the intermachine robot movement time. A computational study demonstrates that … practical insights that are useful in maximizing productivity of any cell configuration with either type of robot …

function of the robot’s sequence time is found and verified with simulation results. This yields formulas for the cell …