Title :
Control and Scheduling in Flexible Manufacturing Cells
Author :
Ferrolho, António ; Crisóstomo, Manuel
Author_Institution :
Polytech. Inst. of Viseu, Viseu
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a work on control and scheduling in flexible manufacturing cells (FMC). We developed an FMC with industrial characteristics, with the objective of studying the control and scheduling problems in these types of manufacturing systems. First, we developed several software and hardware to control the equipments used in the FMC. Second, we developed a software tool, called HybFlexGA, to study scheduling problems, with genetic algorithms (GA), in the FMC. Finally, we applied the HybFlexGA to solve scheduling problems in the FMC.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; flexible manufacturing systems; genetic algorithms; production control; production engineering computing; software tools; HybFlexGA; flexible manufacturing cells; genetic algorithms; scheduling; software tool; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Flexible manufacturing systems; Hardware; Industrial control; Job shop scheduling; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing systems; Pulp manufacturing; Software tools;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology, 2006. ICIT 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mumbai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0726-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0726-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2006.372442
