Applying stochastic programming for optimizing production time and cost in an automated manufacturing system

Author

Fazlollahtabar, Hamed ; Mahdavi, Iraj

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Mazandaran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Babol, Iran

fYear

2009

fDate

6-9 July 2009

Firstpage

1226

Lastpage

1230

Abstract

This study concerns with optimizing both time and cost in an automated manufacturing system. In the proposed system material handling is by automated guided vehicles and some robots do the manufacturing functions. In this way defect rates, break down times, waiting time, processing time, and other parameters are not deterministic. Therefore, we apply stochastic programming to optimize the production time and material handling cost.

Keywords

automatic guided vehicles; industrial robots; manufacturing systems; materials handling equipment; optimisation; stochastic programming; automated guided vehicles; automated manufacturing system; break down times; defect rates; material handling; optimisation; processing time; production cost; production time; stochastic programming; waiting time; Automatic programming; Cost function; Manufacturing automation; Manufacturing systems; Materials handling; Production systems; Robot programming; Robotics and automation; Stochastic systems; Vehicles; automated guided vehicle; automated manufacturing system; material handling; production time; stochastic programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009. CIE 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Troyes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4135-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4136-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223677

Filename

5223677