Dispatching Procedures for a Flexible Manufacturing Cell in Constant Production Circumstances
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
ISSN: 0144-3577
Article publication date: 1 November 1993
Abstract
Reports development and simulation of real‐time dispatching procedures, for flexible manufacturing cells (FMCs) in constant production circumstances, where a fixed set of part types is processed continuously while maintaining constant ratios between quantities needed of each part type. Five different procedures were tested: the first based on a simple rule, called the largest relative advantage (LRA) rule; two procedures linear programming based (named FMLPP and ALPP); a pull‐type procedure; and the last based on SPT rule. As expected, one of the linear programming based procedures achieved the best results. However, the much simpler LRA based procedure produced similar results, especially in the presence of machine failures. It was shown that, for high processing flexibility, good performance may be achieved by a dispatching procedure using the cell processing flexibility. In contrast to this, in low processing flexibility situations, there is no significant difference between the various scheduling procedures.
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Citation
Arzi, Y. and Roll, Y. (1993), "Dispatching Procedures for a Flexible Manufacturing Cell in Constant Production Circumstances", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 13 No. 11, pp. 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443579310046436
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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