Production Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems
By: by Tadeusz Sawik
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783642636660; 9783642586149
Subjects: Economics; Machinery
Description: The book familiarizes the reader with the flexible assembly systems planning and scheduling issues and various operations research modelling and solution approaches. Some of the many topic highlights presented are the overall structure and components of a flexible assembly system, bi-objective integer programming models and algorithms for machine loading, assembly routing, and assembly plan selection, and fast combinatorial heuristics for scheduling flexible assembly lines with limited intermediate buffers. Also the book deals with just-in-time scheduling of flexible assembly lines, and dynamic dispatching algorithms for simultaneous scheduling of assembly stations and automated guided vehicles.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Flexible Assembly Systems - Hardware Components and Features; title: Issues in Design, Planning and Scheduling of Flexible Assembly; title: Loading and Routing Decisions in Flexible Assembly Systems; title: Loading and Routing Decisions with Assembly Plan Selection; title: Loading and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Cells; title: Production Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Lines; title: Machine and Vehicle Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems.