Title :
A concurrent facility design procedure for flexible manufacturing systems
Author :
Malmborg, Charles J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Decision Sci. & Eng. Syst., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a facility design procedure for minimizing work-in-process (WIP) storage requirements in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). An FMS is defined as a set of workcenters in a line layout that are linked by a materials handling system consisting of an automated guided vehicle system (AGVS) supplemented by a secondary handling system. The secondary handling system is used for material transport whenever WIP storage at a workcenter reaches a level that prohibits the flow of incoming or outgoing unit loads. The facility design procedure is based on the sequencing of workcenters in the FMS line layout to minimize the rate of transactions passed to the secondary handling system
Keywords :
automatic guided vehicles; computer aided production planning; concurrent engineering; flexible manufacturing systems; materials handling; automated guided vehicle system; concurrent facility design procedure; flexible manufacturing systems; materials handling system; sequencing; work-in-process storage requirements; workcenters; Costs; Couplings; Delay; Flexible manufacturing systems; Job shop scheduling; Material storage; Materials handling; Neural networks; Production; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1994. Humans, Information and Technology., 1994 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Antonio, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2129-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1994.400063
