@inbook{3c0c42b1ff874384a9d939034335dbd9,
title = "Scheduling production flow in a cell with fixture inspections",
abstract = "This paper studies the optimal behavior of a flexible manufacturing cell with parallel identical machines. We present our new approach, which is applied to a real manufacturing system, drawn from Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. The approach states the scheduling problem in the form of an optimal control problem with different production constraints: precedence constraints, setup effects, and fixture inspections. The objective is to find the schedule with minimal surplus/backlog costs subject to a given demand profile. Applying the maximum principle to the problem allows an effective numerical scheduling method to be constructed. The method is able to obtain near-optimal results for large-scale systems. The paper considers two modifications of a cell with parallel identical machines: with and without fixture inspections, and presents examples for both cases.",
author = "Oded Maimon and Eugene Khmelnitsky",
year = "1996",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "Proceedings of the Japan/USA Symposium on Flexible Automation",
publisher = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)",
pages = "1293--1296",
editor = "K. Stelson and F. Oba",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Japan/USA Symposium on Flexible Automation",
note = "null ; Conference date: 07-07-1996 Through 10-07-1996",
}