Optimal design of flexible production lines with unreliable machines and infinite buffers

Optimal design of flexible production lines with unreliable machines and infinite buffers

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Article ID: iaor2002618
Country: United States
Volume: 30
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 391
End Page Number: 399
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Journal: IIE Transactions
Authors: ,
Abstract:

Despite the increasing use of automated manufacturing systems, combining flexible technology, only a few models for designing such systems are avaialble. This paper presents a model for the determination of the profit-maximizing configuration of workstations (both machine types and number) along a flexible production line with unreliable machines and infinte buffers. A mixed integer programming formulation of the problem is introduced and an optimal solution algorithm is developed. For large scale problems a heuristic procedure is presented.

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