B. Pourbabai, LOADING STRATEGIES FOR A CLASS OF JUST-IN-TIME MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, International journal, advanced manufacturing technology, 10(1), 1995, pp. 46-51
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Manufacturing","Robotics & Automatic Control
In this paper, based on the group technology and the just-in-time manu
facturing concepts, two loading models for optimal utilisation of the
processing capabilities of an integrated manufcturing system consistin
g of a set of heterogeneous workstations are developed. These loading
models are developed to integrate and utilise the available informatio
n from both the bill of materials and the process plans. The objective
functions for these models are: the maximum tardiness and the makespa
n. In these models, the production quantity of each customer order for
any part or product always equals its corresponding demand quantity;
each part requires a finite number of aggregated stages of operation;
job splitting is allowed; and the processing priorities of all the job
s during the planning time horizon are specified based on a desirable
dispatching rule. The proposed mathematical programming models are fix
ed charge problems which are solved by compatible mixed integer progra
mming algorithms. Finally, to provide additional decision-making capab
ilities, based on these models and their corresponding solution algori
thms, a compatible decision support system is suggested.