Operations Assistant and its application to material storage management

Author

Ekroot, B.C. ; Morris, R.J.T. ; Rubin, L.D. ; Samadi, B. ; Wong, W.S.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

23-26 Apr 1990

Firstpage

510

Lastpage

516

Abstract

The Operations Assistant is an interactive decision support system designed to help manage a manufacturing facility. A material management version is described which analyzes the operation of gathering raw materials in a complex storeroom in order to insure that downstream assembly lines have the right material when they need it. The tool described has a user friendly interface and offers the necessary information for making decisions on the product entry sequences and work-in-progress reduction schemes. It can be applied to assembly shops, test areas, and storerooms. The general architecture of the Operations Assistant and how that architecture applies to material storage management are described

Keywords

assembling; decision support systems; manufacturing data processing; warehouse automation; Operations Assistant; assembly lines; assembly shops; interactive decision support system; manufacturing facility; material storage management; product entry sequences; raw materials; storeroom; test areas; user friendly interface; work-in-progress reduction schemes; Assembly; Circuits; Contingency management; Decision making; Material storage; Production facilities; Raw materials; Resource management; Testing; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Integration, 1990. Systems Integration '90., Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Morristown, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9027-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSI.1990.138717

Filename

138717