Se. Ramaswamy et Sb. Joshi, A RESPONSE-SURFACE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING COMPOSITE DISPATCHING RULESFOR FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS, International Journal of Production Research, 32(11), 1994, pp. 2613-2629
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Engineering,"Operatione Research & Management Science
We present a new approach to scheduling Flexible Manufacturing Systems
based on Response Surface Modelling methodology. This experimental te
chnique for model building is used to generate scheduling rules which
are then used by the machines in the process of job selection. A syste
matic procedure to identify factors interest and utilize them to devel
op a scheduling mechanism is presented. Issues of automation revision
of the rules to adapt to changes in the shop are also discussed. The a
pproach was tested as part of a larger framework of distributed decisi
on making for scheduling and was found to perform significantly better
than static heuristic procedures.