Title :
Transport planning and scheduling using automatic guided vehicles in a CIM environment
Author :
Espuña, A. ; Puigjaner, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. Eng., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
A production scheduling system able to consider the most relevant characteristics associated with transport manufacturing tasks has been developed. Once the main restrictions associated to these tasks (number, location and characteristics of available AGV, autonomy limitations, etc.) have been introduced, the system simultaneously optimises production and transport task schedules, taking into account the overall production policies and a common objective function (i.e., tardiness, makespan, etc). Decision making related with the transport system is then integrated and co-ordinated with the overall plant decision-making
Keywords :
automatic guided vehicles; computer integrated manufacturing; industrial robots; production control; scheduling; transportation; CIM environment; automatic guided vehicles; autonomy limitations; common objective function; decision making; makespan; plant decision-making; production policies; production scheduling system; tardiness; transport manufacturing tasks; transport planning; transport system; transport task schedules; Batch production systems; Capacity planning; Computer integrated manufacturing; Continuous production; Decision making; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing industries; Processor scheduling; Production systems; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 1999. Proceedings. ETFA '99. 1999 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Barcelona
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5670-5
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.1999.813165
