Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference (한국공작기계학회:학술대회논문집)
- 1998.03a
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- Pages.209-213
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- 1998
Production Scheduling for a Flexible Manufacturing Cell
Abstract
This study considers flowshop scheduling problem related to flexible maufacturing cell in which consists of two machining centers, robots for loading/unloading, and an automated guided vehicle(AGV) for material handling between two machining centers. Because no machinng center has buffer storage for work in process, a machining center can not release a finished job until the empty AGV is available at that machining center. While the AGV cannot tranfer an unfinished job to a machining center until the machining center empty. In this paper, an new heuristic algorithm is given to find the sequence that minimize their makespan.
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