Article ID: | iaor20011213 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 124 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 409 |
End Page Number: | 421 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2000 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Kksalan Murat, Moskowitz Herbert, Altinkemer Kemal, Kazaz Burak |
Keywords: | optimization |
This paper focuses on an integrated optimization problem that is designed to improve productivity in printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing. We examine the problems of allocating the components to feeders and sequencing the placement of these components on the PCBs, populated by a rotary head machine with surface mount technology. While previous research focuses on sequencing the placement and only considers this subproblem as part of an interrelated set of problems, we provide an integrated approach which tackles all subproblems simultaneously as a single problem. Given an