Title :
A hybrid approach for dynamic assembly shop floor layout
Author :
Wang, Lihui ; Keshavarzmanesh, Shadi ; Feng, Hsi-Yung Steve
Author_Institution :
Virtual Syst. Res. Centre, Univ. of Skovde, Skövde, Sweden
Abstract :
Highly turbulent environment of dynamic job-shop operations affects the shop floor layout problem as well as other areas. Due to frequently altering needs of layout, essential requirements such as adaptability and proactive responsiveness to the dynamic changes need to be considered in addition to the materials handling and machine relocation costs when a shop floor is reconfigured from one layout to the next. Targeting the autonomy and adaptability of dynamic and distributed job-shop assembly operations, this paper proposes to incorporate function block methodology to deal with the layout issues of the frequently changing environment. This is an extension to the authors´ previous work.
Keywords :
assembling; facilities layout; job shop scheduling; materials handling; distributed job-shop assembly operation; dynamic assembly shop floor layout; dynamic job-shop operation; function block methodology; machine relocation cost; material handling; Assembly; Biological cells; Electric breakdown; Layout; Materials handling; Robots; Routing;
Conference_Titel :
Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2010 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5447-1
DOI :
10.1109/COASE.2010.5584219