Tool magazine arrangement and operations sequencing on CNC machines

Tool magazine arrangement and operations sequencing on CNC machines

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Article ID: iaor19971814
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 23
Issue: 11
Start Page Number: 1069
End Page Number: 1081
Publication Date: Nov 1996
Journal: Computers and Operations Research
Authors: ,
Keywords: tool management
Abstract:

A two-phase approach is developed to solve the tool magazine arrangement and operations sequencing problems. The overall aim is to minimize the total manufacturing cost by utilizing the benefits of tool sharing concept and loading duplicate tools due to a possible decrease in tooling and tool operating costs while maintaining the feasibility in terms of precedence, tool magazine capacity, tool life covering and tool availability constraints due to tool contention among the operations for a limited number of tool types, because the absence of such crucial constraints may lead to infeasible results. Furthermore, the proposed approach can provide an effective decision making tool for the short term operational decisions of a flexible manufacturing system.

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