Proceedings of the Third ORSA/TIMS Conference on Flexible Manufacturing Systems : Operations Research Models and Applications, held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA., U.S.A., August 14-16, 1989

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Proceedings of the Third ORSA/TIMS Conference on Flexible Manufacturing Systems : Operations Research Models and Applications, held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA., U.S.A., August 14-16, 1989

edited by Kathryn E. Stecke and Rajan Suri

(Manufacturing research and technology, 8)

Elsevier, 1989

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For the growing numbers of people in industry, academia and government who are involved with Flexible Manufacturing Systems, this series of Proceedings continues to present state-of-the-art knowledge about FMSs including Flexible Assembly Systems (FASs).

Table of Contents

A selection of contents: Strategic Issues for FMS Adoption. Two-Tiered Measurement Systems in Modernizing Plants (J.E. Ettlie). Capacity modelling of a FAS: The two-product case (I.J. Winters, M.C. Burstein). Evaluating the design of FMS (U. Nandkeolyar, D.P. Christy). Adoption of FMS in China: necessity and constraints (Z-X. Luo). A systematic assessment of the value of flexibility for an FMS (C. Chen-Hua, C. In-Jazz). Economic Issues. Multiproduct industries: A case for flexible automation (D. Gupta, J.A. Buzacott). An MIP formulation for the phased implementation of FMS modules (N.C. Suresh, J. Sarkis). Investment evaluation methodology (P.L. Pollard, R.L. Tapscott). Cost estimating for the factory of the future (P.C. Hough). System Design and Evaluation. Planning problems of FAM cells in a job shop: a case study (C.W. Dirne). Cost efficiency: an index of operational performance of FAP environments (N. Alberti, S. Noto La Diega). A case study on FMS capacity determination (M.V. Tatikonda, M.K. Crosheck). Processing rate optimization for FMS's with distinct multiple job visits to work centers (P.J. Schweitzer, A. Seidmann). An algorithm for the minimum cost configuration problem in flexible manufacturing systems (H.F. Lee et al.). Loading Problems. Tool management in AM: A tutorial (A.E. Gray, K.E. Stecke). Loading problem in FMS: part movement minimization (K. Shanker, S. Rajamarthandan). Goal-oriented heuristics for the FMS loading (and part type selection) problems (A.A. Moreno, D. Fong-Yuen). Procedure to solve part mix and tool assignment problems in FMS (C. Shu-Hsing, D. Gwo-Long). Planning. Heuristics for the FMS/MRP rough-cut capacity planning problem (J.B. Mazzola). Layout problem in FMS: recent research results and further research directions (P. Kouvelis, A.S. Kiran). Scheduling. Flexible routing control and scheduling (L. Yuh-Jiun, J.J. Solberg). The need to consider job sequencing policy when determining buffer capacity for FMC flow lines (T. Park, H.J. Steudel). Scheduling and Flow Control. On solving a model for workload allocation on parallel unrelated machines with set-ups (B.L. Dietrich, L.F. Escudero). Optimal job-order release in a robotic assembly cell (A.K. Chakravarty, J.J. Liu). Decision Support Tools for Planning and Scheduling. A decision support system for real time production scheduling (A. LeGall, F. Roubellat). The leitstand - a new tool in CAM scheduling (H.H. Adelsberger, J.J. Kanet). Software and Controls. CIMGEN: a case tool for CIM development (E.G. Mettala et al.). On-line concurrent simulation in production scheduling (W.J. Davis, A.T. Jones). Material Handling. An investigation of machine and AGV scheduling rules in an FMS (I. Sabuncouglu, D.L. Hommertzheim). Flexible Assembly Systems. Hybrid algorithms for design optimization of asynchronous FAS with statistical process control and repair (A.A. Bulgak, J.L. Sanders). Design of an unmanned flexible assembly cell (K. Krishnamurthy et al.).

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