Article ID: | iaor19881014 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 1019 |
End Page Number: | 1034 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1989 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Shanker K., Srinivasulu A. |
Keywords: | heuristics, production: FMS |
The loading problem in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is viewed as selecting a subset of jobs from the job pool and allocating jobs among machines. A two-stage branch and backtrack procedure is developed with the objective of maximizing the assigned workload. Heuristic procedures are also developed with a bicriterion objective of minimizing the workload imbalance and maximizing the throughput for critical resources such as the number of tool slots on machines and the number of working hours in a scheduling period. The case of machine-dependent processing times is also dealt with. An illustrative numerical example accompanies each procedure.