Download or read book An Investigation of Dynamic Group Scheduling and Releasing Heuristics in Cellular Manufacturing written by Farzad Mahmoodi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Investigation of Group Scheduling Heuristic in the Cellular Manufacturing System written by Virin Kitnuntaviwat and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by Shahrukh A. Irani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing (CM) is the grouping of similar products for manufacture in discrete multi-machine cells. It has been proven to yield faster production cycles, lower in-process inventory levels, and enhanced product quality. Pioneered on a large scale by Russian, British, and German manufacturers, interest in CM methods has grown steadily over the past decade. However, there continues to be a dearth of practical guides for industrial engineers and production managers interested in implementing CM techniques in their plants. Bringing together contributions by an international team of CM experts, the Handbook of Cellular Manufacturing Systems bridges this gap in the engineering literature.

Download or read book Journal of Operations Management written by American production and inventory control society and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Simulation Analysis of Group Scheduling Heuristics in a Cellular Manufacturing System written by Sin Min Yap and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Group Technology And Cellular Manufacturing written by Ali Κ. Kamrani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the latest up-to-date documentation on the scope of research in Group Technology (GT) and Cellular Manufacturing (CM). It is a comprehensive listing of the methodologies, techniques, algorithms and tools used for practical implementation of the concepts of GT and CM.

Download or read book Bi criteria Group Scheduling with Sequence dependent Setup Time in a Flow Shop written by Dongchen Lu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cellular manufacturing, which is also referred to as group technology among researchers, has primarily been used as a means to increase productivity, efficiency and flexibility. Under group technology, similar jobs, which have similar shape, material, and processing operations are assigned to the same group. Moreover, dissimilar machines are assigned to the same cell to meet the processing requirements of jobs in a group or multiple groups. Group scheduling problems have been studied extensively in the past as implementation of group technology became more prevalent in industry. However, most of the work that has been done has focused on single-criterion optimization. A bi-criteria group scheduling problem in a flow shop with sequence-dependent setup time is investigated in this research. Cellular manufacturing and flow shop are two popular scenarios in industry. To mimic real industry practice, dynamic job releases and dynamic machine availabilities are assumed. The goal is to minimize the weighted sum of total weighted completion time and total weighted tardiness, which satisfy the producer and customer goals separately. Normalized weights are assigned to both criteria to describe the trade-off between the two goals. Two different initial solution finding mechanisms are proposed, and a tabu-search based two-level search algorithm is developed to find near optimal solutions for the problem. An example problem is used to demonstrate the applicability of the search algorithm. A mathematical model is developed and implemented to evaluate the quality of the solutions obtained from the heuristics in small problem instances. Further, to uncover the difference in performance of initial solution finding mechanisms and heuristics, a detailed experimental design is performed. The results show that different heuristics have different performance in solving problems generated with different parameters.

Download or read book A Study of Scheduling and Quality in Field service Support Systems written by Dyan Lynn Haugen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book DYNAMIC PROD SCHEDULING IN VIR written by Jun Ma and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Dynamic Production Scheduling in Virtual Cellular Manufacturing Systems" by 马俊, Jun, Ma, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Manufacturing companies must constantly improve productivity to respond to dynamic changes in customer demand in order to maintain their competitiveness and marketshares. This requires manufacturers to adopt more efficient methodologies to design and control their manufacturing systems. In recent decades, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM), as an advanced manufacturing concept, has attracted increasing attention in the research community, because traditional cellular manufacturing is inadequate when operating in a highly dynamic manufacturing environment. Virtual cellular manufacturing temporarily and dynamically groups production resources to form virtual cells according to production requirements, thus enjoying high production efficiency and flexibility simultaneously. The objective of this research is to develop cost-effective methodologies for manufacturing cell formation and production scheduling in virtual cellular manufacturing systems (VCMSs), operating in single-period/multi-period, and dynamic manufacturing environments. In this research, two mathematical models are developed to describe the characteristics of VCMSs operating under a single-period and a multi-period manufacturing environment respectively. These models aim to develop production schedules to minimize the total manufacturing cost incurred in manufacturing products for the entire planning horizon, taking into consideration many practical constraints such as workforce requirements, effective capacities of production resources, and delivery due dates of orders. In the multi-period case, worker training is also considered and factors affecting worker training are analyzed in detail. This research also develops a novel hybrid algorithm to solve complex production scheduling problems optimally for VCMSs. The hybrid algorithm is based on the techniques of discrete particle swarm optimization, ant colony system and constraint programming. Its framework is discrete particle swarm optimization which can locate good production schedules quickly. To prevent the optimization process being trapped into a local optimum, concepts of ant colony system and constraint programming are incorporated into the framework to greatly enhance the exploration and exploitation of the solution space, thus ensuring better quality production schedules. Sensitivity analyses of the key parameters of the hybrid algorithm are also conducted in detail to provide a theoretical foundation which shows that the developed hybrid algorithm is indeed an excellent optimization tool for production scheduling in VCMSs. In practice, the occurrence of unpredictable events such as breakdown of machines, change in the status of orders and absenteeism of workers will make the current production schedule infeasible. A new feasible production schedule may therefore need to be generated rapidly to ensure smooth manufacturing operations. This research develops several cost-effective production rescheduling strategies for VCMSs operating under different dynamic manufacturing environments. These strategies facilitates the determination of when-to and how-to take rescheduling actions. To further enhance the performance of such strategies in generating new production schedules, especially for large-scale manufacturing systems, a parallel approach is established to implement the developed hybrid algorithm on GPU with compute unified device architecture. The convergence charact

Download or read book An Investigation of Group Scheduling Heuristics in a Dual constrained Manufacturing Cell written by Glen T. Wirth and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing written by Nallan C. Suresh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing (GT/CM) have been widely-researched areas in the past 15 years and much progress has been made in all branches of GT/CM. Resulting from this research activity has been a proliferation of techniques for part-machine grouping, engineering data bases, expert system-based design methods for identifying part families, new analytical and simulation tools for evaluating performance of cells, new types of cell incorporating robotics and flexible automation, team-based approaches for organizing the work force and much more; however, the field lacks a careful compilation of this research and its outcomes. The editors of this book have commissioned leading researchers and implementers to prepare specific treatments of topics for their special areas of expertise in this broad-based philosophy of manufacturing. The editors have sought to be global both in coverage of topic matters and contributors. Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing addresses the needs and interests of three groups of individuals in the manufacturing field: academic researchers, industry practitioners, and students. (1) The book provides an up-to-date perspective, incorporating the advances made in GT/CM during the past 15 years. As a natural extension to this research, it synthesizes the latest industry practices and outcomes to guide research to greater real-world relevance. (2) The book makes clear the foundations of GT/CM from the core elements of new developments which are aimed at reducing developmental and manufacturing lead times, costs, and at improving business quality and performance. (3) Finally, the book can be used as a textbook for graduate students in engineering and management for studying the field of Group Technology and Cellular Manufacturing.

Download or read book Dynamic Group Scheduling Heuristics in a Flow through Cell Environment written by Edward J. Tierney and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Problem Specific Heuristics for Group Scheduling Problems in Cellular Manufacturing written by Janis S. Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Problem Specific Heuristics for Group Scheduling Problems in Cellular Manufacturing written by Janis Sebastian Neufeld and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Investigation of Part Family machine Group Formation for Designing Cellular Manufacturing Systems written by Arvind Ballakur and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Investigation of Group Scheduling Heuristics in a Flow Shop Cellular System with Workcenter Sharing for the Forbidden Early Shipment Environment written by Bor-Yuh Leu and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Simulation Investigation of Group Scheduling Heuristics in a Job Shop Cell written by Robert A. Ruben and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: