Title :
Job flow control in assembly operations
Author :
Ayhan, Hayriye ; Wortman, Martin A.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Ind. & Syst. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
fDate :
4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors develop a state variable feedback control for a class of assembly operations. The objective of this control is to increase the number of jobs completed within a time horizon T while keeping the job cycle times within an acceptable range with a prespecified probability. The assembly operations are modeled as stochastic timed-event graphs which in the (max, +) algebra are characterized by a set of linear stochastic difference equations
Keywords :
Petri nets; assembling; difference equations; probability; production control; stochastic processes; assembly; job cycle times; job flow control; probability; production control; state variable feedback; stochastic difference equations; timed-event graphs; Algebra; Assembly systems; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Feedback control; Network servers; Random variables; Stochastic processes; Throughput;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
