Article ID: | iaor1998658 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 78 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 58 |
End Page Number: | 80 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1994 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Crama Yves, Oerlemans Alwin G. |
Keywords: | heuristics, programming: integer, manufacturing industries |
A flexible manufacturing systems consists of a number of NC-machines, linked by automated material handling devices, that perform the various operations required to manufacture parts. Each operation requires different tools. These tools are stored in a limited capacity tool magazine attached to each machine. When it becomes necessary to add or remove tools from the tool magazine, the machine may have to be shut down for a setup. In this paper, we study a model which aims at minimizing the number of setups. We assume that