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Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems

In: Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services

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  • Michael L. Pinedo

    (Stern School of Business New York University, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences)

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Flexible assembly systems differ in a number of ways from the job shops considered in the previous chapter. In a job shop, eac h job has its own identity and may be different from all other jobs. In a flexible assembly system, there are typically a limited number of different product types and the system has to produce a given quantity of each product type. So two units of the same product type are identical. The movements of jobs in a flexible assembly system are often controlled by a material handling system, which imposes constraints on the starting times of the jobs at the various machines or workstations. The starting time of a job at a machine is a function of its completion time on the previous machine on its route. A material handling system usually also limits the number of jobs waiting in buffers between machines. In this chapter we analyze three different models for flexible assembly systems. The machine environments in the three models are similar to the machine environments of a flow shop or a flexible flow shop. However,the models tend to be more complicated than the models considered in Chapter 5. This is mainly because of the additional constraints that are imposed by the material handling systems.

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  • Michael L. Pinedo, 2009. "Scheduling of Flexible Assembly Systems," Springer Books, in: Planning and Scheduling in Manufacturing and Services, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 117-142, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4419-0910-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0910-7_6
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