A scheduling approach for a flexible manufacturing system

A scheduling approach for a flexible manufacturing system

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Article ID: iaor1994549
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 31
Issue: 10
Start Page Number: 2369
End Page Number: 2385
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Journal: International Journal of Production Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: scheduling
Abstract:

This paper discusses the scheduling problem of a particular flexible manufacturing system (FMS). The two main components of the FMS are a CNC turret lathe and a CNC machining centre. In the system a wide range of different jobs has to be processed. Each job consists of one or more processing operations on one or both machines. Important characteristics of the scheduling problem are sequence-dependent change-over times (on the turret lathe) and transfer times (on both machines and between the machines). The change-over times are caused by the need to exchange tools in the turret when a new part is going to be processed. The transfer times reflect the time needed to perform manual transportation and clamping activities between two subsequent processing (machining) operations of a part. In this paper a branch and bound algorithm is described based on an active schedule strategy. Solutions are compared to results obtained by a simple dispatching rule.

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