Real-Time Simulation and Production Scheduling Systems (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

Davis, Wayne J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0265910188 ISBN 13 : 9780265910184

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Real-Time Simulation and Production Scheduling Systems

Flexible Manufacturing Systems (fms) have been installed in numerous factories around the world. Production scheduling is the function for assigning fms resources to various manufacturing tasks. Efficient use of these resources is critical to a company's goal of increased profits. In fact, poor scheduling decisions tend to reduce profits because they increase idle time on machines, cause bottlenecks on the shop floor, and push customer orders past their due date.

Mathematical programming approaches to solving the scheduling problem have received considerable attention in the literature. Graves [gra81] and Raman [ram85] have provided excellent surveys on these techniques. However, these techniques tend to have prohibitive computational requirements and restrictive assumptions. Another major drawback to these approaches is that they typically do not include material handling constraints. Discrete event simulation, expert systems, and other heuristics [mil86, nor86, jac86] are other methods used to generate schedules. While simulation and expert systems packages allow the manufacturing system to be modelled to any level of detail, they still have unacceptable computational requirements. In addition, all of these methods generate feasible solutions with no measure of optimality. These undesirable properties tend to limit the applicability of all these approaches in a real fms environment.

There are two other major drawbacks to all of the aforementioned approaches. First, they are all run off-line usually once or twice a day. Consequently, they are not able to respond quickly to unexpected events in the fms. These events are usually handled on an ad hoc basis by the fms superor with little understanding of the impact of his decisions on the overall schedule.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0265910188
• ISBN 13: 9780265910184
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 27
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