Real-time tool control and job dispatching in flexible manufacturing systems |
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| Authors: | Min-Hong Han Yoon K Na Gary L Hogg |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Industrial Engineering , Texas A&2. M University , College Station, TX |
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| Abstract: | A method of loading a set of tools to the different machining centres of a shop is presented, where each part visits only one of the machining centres for its entire processing. Any tools which are required but unavailable for the processing of a part are borrowed from other machining centres. As a real-time control, the tool-returning policies for those borrowed tools and the job-dispatching rules at the machining centres are evaluated to maximize the throughput performance of the shop. Some experimental results are provided. |
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