An iterative method for scheduling a FMS

Author

Chu, Chengbin ; Tournier-Colletta, Jean-Luc

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. de Recherche en Inf. et Autom., Lorraine, France

Volume

3

fYear

1995

fDate

22-25 Oct 1995

Firstpage

2137

Abstract

Develops an approach to solve a scheduling problem in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). This is a highly automated system composed of several identical machining centers. Due to the large variety of parts manufactured in the system, tool magazines of the machining centers cannot hold at the same time all the tools necessary. Therefore, a robot is used to load tools into a magazine or unload tools from it. Parts are handled by an AGV between the input station, output station and the machining centers. Therefore, three types of resources have to be coordinated in order to maximize the throughput or to minimize the makespan in terms of scheduling theory

Keywords

automatic guided vehicles; flexible manufacturing systems; industrial robots; iterative methods; machine tools; machining; materials handling; production control; resource allocation; robots; AGV; FMS; flexible manufacturing system; iterative method; machining centers; makespan minimisation; resources coordination; scheduling; tool magazines; Flexible manufacturing systems; Iterative methods; Job shop scheduling; Machining; Manufacturing systems; Milling machines; Robot kinematics; Robotics and automation; Security; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1995. Intelligent Systems for the 21st Century., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2559-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538096

Filename

538096