Integrated manufacturing planning for an AGV-based FMS

This research aims at developing a manufacturing planning methodology for a n AGV-based automated manufacturing system by simultaneously dealing with m aterial processing and transportation functions. The integrated planning mo del is developed through identification and analysis of complex interaction s between material processing and transportation functions. Also, a solutio n method is developed by decomposing the integrated planning model into sma ller two subproblems, a machine selection and operations sequencing and fle xible guidepath design, and alternately solving these two subproblems. An e xample problem is solved to present the solution procedure to apply the pro posed solution method. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.