Production Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems

Abstract

Flexible Assembly Systems - Hardware Components and Features: Basic components of a FAS.- Classification of flexible assembly systems.- Examples of industrial installations.- Issues in Design, Planning and Scheduling of Flexible Assembly: FAS design issues.- Network design for material flow systems.- Design for assembly.- Assembly planning.- Planning and scheduling.- Loading and Routing Decisions in Flexible Assembly Systems: Description of a flexible assembly system.- Optimization of station workloads and product movements.- Design and balancing of flexible assembly lines.- Numerical examples.- Simultaneous loading and routing.- Sequential loading and routing.- Loading and Routing Decisions with Assembly Plan Selection: Simultaneous loading, routing and assembly plan selection in a general flexible assembly system.- Simultaneous loading, routing and assembly plan selection in a flexible assembly line.- Loading and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Cells: Loading and scheduling in a robot assembly cell.- Loading and sequencing in printed circuit board assembly.- Production Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Lines: Flexible assembly line with limited intermediate buffers.- Flexible assembly line with no in-process buffers.- Global lower bounds for flexible flow lines with unlimited buffers.- Just-in-time scheduling of flexible assembly lines.- Multilevel scheduling of flexible assembly lines with limited intermediate buffers.- Machine and Vehicle Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems: Dispatching scheduling.- Machine and vehicle scheduling - a multi-level approach.- Machine and vehicle scheduling - a single-level approach.