Design and planning problems in flexible manufacturing systems: a critical review

Kouvelis, Panos

doi:10.1007/bf01474748

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“…There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of articles that touch on some of the decisions we consider in our framework, and indeed several books have been written on these topics, for example, Kusiak (1986), Ranky (1984Ranky ( , 1990, Tetzlaff (1990), and Tempelmeier and Kuhn (1993). In addition, Buzacott and Yao (1986), Kouvelis (1992), Gunasekaran et al (1993) and Solot and van Vliet (1994) provide surveys of early research on design and planning of FMS. Elmaraghy and Ravi (1992), and Evans and Haddock (1992), provide surveys of tools that have been used in this context.…”

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confidence: 97%

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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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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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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“…Gray et al (1988) Kouvelis (1989), and Stecke andSuri (1984 and) cite comprehensive references to recent literature in flexible manufacturing. However, Gaimon (1985 and has presented different continuous time acquisition models for determining optimal price and output rate of an aggregate product and optimal acquisition rate of new technology.…”

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Capacity and flexibility planning of an economical manufacturing system

Tang

1991

J Intell Manuf

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This paper presents a simple dynamic model for determining the capacity and the flexibility of a manufacturing system over a finite planning horizon. We consider a problem that arises from the development phase of an investment plan for an economical manufacturing system. The objective is to minimize the total cost associated with the capacity expansion, flexibility expansion and operation. This problem is formulated as an integer program. A Lagrangian heuristic is developed for determining a near optimal solution to this integer program. Finally, we show how to incorporate aggregate production planning into the model.

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“…Therefore, two main factors may cause the resort to the flexibility such as the uncertainty and the variability. Panagiotis Kouvelis (1992) have presented an overview of the flexible manufacturing systems and the contribution of flexibility in the efficiency of the firm.…”

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Hierarchical production planning with flexibility in agroalimentary environment: a case study

Erromdhani¹,

Eddaly²,

Rebaï³

2010

J Intell Manuf

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In this paper we address to the planning problem in the agroalimentary domain. In such industry, several specific constraints should be taken into account for planning task such as the constraints of interdependencies between the products and variable production modes. Furthermore, we present the relationship between two large fields as the production hierarchical planning and the flexibility. Especially, we show that the flexibility planning should be made a priori and then integrated in the hierarchical planning process. Indeed, we have established a mathematical model according to different production levels. While taking into account real capacities of the shop and the interdependencies between the products, the results of our formulation are satisfactory in terms of quality of solution and time requirements. It's shown that our model is able to reach all optimal solutions for all treated models and for all system levels.

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Design and planning problems in flexible manufacturing systems: a critical review

Cited by 48 publications

References 93 publications

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

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

Capacity and flexibility planning of an economical manufacturing system

Hierarchical production planning with flexibility in agroalimentary environment: a case study

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