Title :
Path-clearing policies for flexible manufacturing systems
Author :
Burgess, Kevin ; Passino, Kevin M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
fDate :
3/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
In practical manufacturing settings it is often possible to obtain, in real-time, information about the operation of several machines in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) that can be quite useful in scheduling part flows. The authors introduce some scheduling policies that can effectively utilize such information and they provide sufficient conditions for the stability of two such policies
Keywords :
flexible manufacturing systems; graph theory; production control; FMS; flexible manufacturing systems; part flows; path-clearing policies; scheduling policies; stability; sufficient conditions; Flexible manufacturing systems; Information analysis; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing systems; Network topology; Real time systems; Single machine scheduling; Stability; Sufficient conditions; Traffic control;
Journal_Title :
Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on
