Article ID: | iaor1991137 |
Country: | South Korea |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 65 |
End Page Number: | 75 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1989 |
Journal: | Journal of the Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers |
Authors: | Kim S. |
Keywords: | production: FMS |
This study complements the previous studies on workload distribution problems in Flexible Manufacturing Systems. Specifically, the problem is considered in two perspectives, the long-range policy and the short and medium-term planning and control. The long-term loading policy focusses on identifying the optimal loading of the system characterized by either balanced loading or unique unbalanced loading for which a steepest ascent method is developed. These results are then applied to study the optimal medium and short-term planning and control problems, for which a truncated dynamic programming method is developed in order to obtain the optimal allocation of the given operation mix of part types to work stations.