Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223677
