Article ID: | iaor2003153 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 203 |
End Page Number: | 225 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2002 |
Journal: | International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems |
Authors: | Dallery Yves, Baynat Bruno, Buitenhek Ronald |
Determining the production capacity of flexible manufacturing systems is a very important issue in the design of such systems. We propose an approach for determining the production capacity (i.e., the maximum production rate) of a flexible manufacturing system with several part types, dedicated pallets, and fixed production ratios among the different part types. We show that the problem reduces to the determination of a single parameter for which we propose an iterative procedure. Simulation or approximate analytical techniques can be used as the building block performance evaluation technique in the iterative procedure.