An integrated design support method for flexible assembly systems

Lee, Heungsoon Felix; Stecke, Kathryn E.

doi:10.1016/0278-6125(96)84212-9

Cited by 24 publications

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“…3. But as Lee and Stecke stated [10], FMS are expensive: ''FMS require large capital investment, and a large portion of this investment is committed at the early design stage''. RMS are scalable, but at non-constant steps that depend on initial design and market circumstances.…”

Section: Rms-a New Class Of Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Design of reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Koren

Shpitalni

2010

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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Section: Rms-a New Class Of Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Design of reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Koren

Shpitalni

2010

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

651

247

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“…In addition, a variety of decision support tools have been developed for FMaS and FAS design using simulation and/or analytical tools (e.g., Borenstein 1998a, b;Lee and Stecke 1996;Mellichamp et al 1990). …”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A framework for capacity planning and machine configuration in flexible assembly systems

Lee

Srinivasan

Yano

2006

Int J Flex Manuf Syst

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We consider the problem of simultaneously determining the number of machines (and/or workers), the assignment of tasks (and related tools and components) to these machines, and the number of jobs circulating in a flexible assembly system (FAS), to satisfy steady-state throughput requirements for a family of similar products at minimum cost. We focus on situations where there are precedence relations among the various tasks, as is common in assembly systems. We present a framework for solving this problem based on a heuristic decomposition approach which involves the solution of only a few types of sub-problems. We demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the overall procedure using a number of example problems.

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“…The multiple objective GAs seem to be very promising, in contrast the encoding scheme is not well suited for the grouping problem they deal with. Lee and Stecke (1996) presented an integrated design support method for flexible assembly systems. The utility of a multi-criteria optimisation tool is underlined in that work.…”

Section: Design Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%