Deadlock avoidance in automated manufacturing workstations-a scheduling approach

Author

Ramaswamy, Sanjay E. ; Joshi, Sanjay B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. & Manage. Syst. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

8-13 May 1994

Firstpage

1992

Abstract

Scheduling automated, unmanned manufacturing systems is significantly different from traditional job shops where human presence is implicitly assumed. Deadlocking has been identified as one of the critical problem in the control of automated manufacturing systems. In this paper, formulations for deadlock-free schedules are proposed and the importance of considering both material handling and buffer space availability while scheduling such an automated workstation are discussed

Keywords

factory automation; materials handling; operations research; optimisation; production control; workstations; automated manufacturing workstations; automated workstation; buffer space availability; deadlock avoidance; deadlock-free schedules; material handling; production control; scheduling; unmanned manufacturing systems; Automatic control; Control systems; Flexible manufacturing systems; Humans; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing systems; Materials handling; System recovery; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5330-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1994.351171

Filename

351171