Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1995.538096
