Dynamic routing and the performance of automated manufacturing cells
作者:
THOMASO. BOUCHER,
ALI YALCIN,
TSUTA TAI,
期刊:
IIE Transactions
(Taylor Available online 2000)
卷期:
Volume 32,
issue 10
页码: 975-988
ISSN:0740-817X
年代: 2000
DOI:10.1080/07408170008967455
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
There has been a considerable amount of research done on the “cell formation” problem, in which machining cells are designed to process a family of components. More recently, it has been suggested that machining cells should be designed so that they take advantage of the flexibility for processing parts that have alternate, or multiple machine routing possibilities. It is argued that such flexibility will improve machine utilization as well as other measures of cell performance and may reduce the need for centralized cell loading and scheduling algorithms. Unfortunately, if the cell is automated, routing flexibility requirements can create a complex control problem for the cell controller. In this paper we implement a cell controller designed to handle the requirements of the flexible routing of parts and compare the performance of the cell to the case in which each part has only one routing. We find that significant improvements occur when the cell design is capable of processing parts with flexible routings.
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