Ba. Peters et Gs. Subramanian, ANALYSIS OF PARTIAL SETUP STRATEGIES FOR SOLVING THE OPERATIONAL PLANNING PROBLEM IN PARALLEL MACHINE ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS, International Journal of Production Research, 34(4), 1996, pp. 999-1021
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22
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering,"Operatione Research & Management Science
In this paper, we analyse the operational planning problem in an elect
ronic assembly system with multiple placement machines operating in pa
rallel. The partial setup strategy is proposed as an effective methodo
logy for this problem. This strategy attempts to determine the balance
between processing time and changeover time during system operation.
The four primary issues are determining the assignment of products to
machines, the sequence of products on each machine, the assignment of
components to feeder locations for each product, and the component pla
cement sequence for each product. Four solution procedures for unique
and partial setup strategies are developed and tested. The computation
results show that for low to medium volume high mix environments, the
partial setup procedures offer significant improvement over the uniqu
e setup strategies. The results also show that no single fixed strateg
y dominates in all scenarios, and therefore, an adaptable procedure th
at will choose the best solution for each set of requirements is neede
d.