A real-time policy for performing setup changes in a manufacturing system

Author

Connolly, S. ; Dallery, Y. ; Gershwin, S.B.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Manuf. & Productivity, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

1992

Firstpage

764

Abstract

A method for scheduling setup changes in a simplified manufacturing system is proposed. A deterministic model is used to address the setup problem under transient conditions. A system with one machine processing two part types is considered. To construct a heuristic policy the authors make use of results on deterministic flexible systems, and consider the special case when the cost of positive surplus is infinite. The heuristic finds boundaries in the surplus space which indicate when to change setups. Examples confirm that the heuristic generates a setup policy which is consistent with anticipated optimal behavior

Keywords

manufacturing processes; optimisation; production control; deterministic flexible systems; deterministic model; heuristic policy; machine processing; manufacturing system; production control; real-time policy; scheduling setup changes; transient conditions; Costs; Dynamic scheduling; Frequency; Job shop scheduling; Laboratories; Limit-cycles; Manufacturing systems; Production; Pulp manufacturing; Real time systems; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1992., Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0872-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1992.371622

Filename

371622