Title :
Minimizing total setup cost for a metal casting company
Author :
Yuan, Xue-Ming ; Khoo, Hsien Hui ; Spedding, Trevor A. ; Bainbridge, Ian ; Taplin, David M R
Author_Institution :
Singapore Inst. of Manuf. Technol., Singapore
Abstract :
The optimizing sequence of production for a set of customer orders - in order to minimize machine set-up time and costs - is one of the typical problems found in many manufacturing systems. In this paper, we develop a simulation model to capture a practical system of a metal casting company in Queensland, Australia, and optimize the production sequence for a set of customer orders. The method addressed in the paper can be applied to ether optimization problems in manufacturing industry.
Keywords :
manufacturing systems; metal product industries; optimisation; production management; customer orders; machine set-up time minimization; manufacturing industry; manufacturing systems; metal casting company; production sequence optimization; simulation model; total setup cost minimization; Aluminum alloys; Automatic control; Billets; Casting; Costs; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing systems; Metals industry; Modeling; Production systems;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8786-4
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2004.1371447
