DocumentCode :
3567917
Title :
Design of flexible layouts for manufacturing systems
Author :
Benjaafar, Saifallah ; Sheikhzadeh, Mehdi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
Volume :
1
fYear :
1996
Firstpage :
852
Abstract :
In this paper, we address the problem of designing flexible plant layouts for manufacturing facilities where product demands are subject to variability. We extend existing procedures for layout design by: (1) explicitly capturing the stochastic nature of product demands and the resulting material variability in flows between different processing departments; (2) allowing for the possibility of multiple processing departments of the same type to exist in the same facility; and (3) letting material flows between pairs of individual departments be determined simultaneously with the layout and as function of the demand scenarios
Keywords :
materials handling; operations research; optimisation; production control; flexible layouts; heuristics; manufacturing systems; material flows; material variability; product demands; production control; Cellular manufacturing; Costs; Design engineering; Fluctuations; Investments; Manufacturing processes; Manufacturing systems; Materials handling; Production facilities; Stochastic processes;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 1996. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference on
ISSN :
1050-4729
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2988-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.1996.503879
Filename :
503879
Link To Document :
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