Article ID: | iaor1989143 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 184 |
End Page Number: | 190 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1989 |
Journal: | IIE Transactions |
Authors: | McGinnis Leon F., Han Min-Hong |
Keywords: | manufacturing industries |
This paper presents a real time routing method for material handling transporters in automated manufacturing shops where the performance criterion is to maximize throughput. The static version of the routing problem is identified as a one machine due date problem with sequence dependent processing times and sequence dependent due dates. For real time application, a heuristic method is proposed, and its performance is evaluated and compared to other currently known rules using discrete simulation on hypothetical cell operations.