Title :
Design and operation of manufacturing systems-control- and system-theoretical models and issues
Author :
Gershwin, Stanley B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
The design and operation of manufacturing systems are of great economic importance. In spite of the considerable literature and long history of manufacturing, much research remains to be done. This paper combines earlier work on the hedging point method for scheduling and the decomposition method for performance prediction and design to propose a unified approach for design and operation. It includes algorithms for selecting buffer sizes and policy parameters
Keywords :
production control; buffer size selection; control theory; decomposition method; hedging point method; manufacturing systems; performance design; performance prediction; policy parameter selection; scheduling; system theory; Control system synthesis; Dynamic programming; Economic forecasting; History; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing systems; Mechanical engineering; Production; Scheduling algorithm; World Wide Web;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997
Conference_Location :
Albuquerque, NM
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3832-4
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.1997.610917
