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Design, planning, scheduling, and control problems of flexible manufacturing systems
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1985-01)
The design and use of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) involve some intricate operations research problems. FMS design problems include, for example, determining the appropriate number of machine tools of each type, ...
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) processes in an integrated quality information system
(Elsevier, 1989)
A general design of an integrated total quality information system involving the Quality Function Deployment process is proposed in this paper. Data flow diagram is used to illustrate the structure of the information system. ...
Performance evaluation for systems of pooled machines of unequal sizes: Unbalancing versus balancing
(Elsevier, 1989-09-05)
This research explores the appropriateness of unbalancing the workload per machine in certain types of flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs) configured as pooled machines of unequal sizes. Studies are conducted to examine ...
Machine utilizations achieved using balanced FMS production ratios in a simulated setting
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Scientific Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-12)
Stecke [21] has developed mathematical programming approaches for determining, from a set of part type requirements, the production ratios (part types to be produced next, and their proportions) which maximize overall ...
Real-time scheduling of an automated manufacturing center
(Elsevier, 1989-05-25)
This paper investigates the dynamic scheduling of an automated manufacturing workcenter at which jobs are processed in batches, and there is a constant changeover time between batches of different part types. The primary ...
A hierarchical approach to solving machine grouping and loading problems of flexible manufacturing systems
(Elsevier, 1986-03)
A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is an integrated system of computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools, each having an automatic tool interchange capability, and all connected by an automated material handling ...
The transient behavior of the M/Ek/2 queue and steady-state simulation
(Elsevier, 1988)
The probabilistic structure for the transient M/Ek/2 queue is derived in discrete time, where Ek denotes a k-Erlang distribution. This queue has a two-dimensional state-space. Expressions for the expected delay in queue ...
Planning horizons for the deterministic capacity problem
(Elsevier, 1981)
We consider the problem of determining the optimal timing and sizing of new facility construction under a continuous technology model of possible sizes. The rate of convergence of short to long run optimal policies is ...