A Multilevel Decision Support System for the Financial Justification of Automated Flexible Manufacturing Systems

George E. Monahan and Timothy L. Smunt
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George E. Monahan: College of Commerce, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820
Timothy L. Smunt: Graduate School of Business Administration, Washington University, Campus Box 1133, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Interfaces, 1987, vol. 17, issue 6, 29-40

Abstract: A decision support system (DSS) can be used to evaluate the conversion of batch production processes to automated flexible manufacturing processes. In this DSS, we utilize three levels of analysis: (1) the long-term, firm-planning level, (2) the medium-term, factory-operating level, and (3) the automated-work-cell-design level. An example DSS uses currently available software for the medium- and short-term levels. It can be used to examine detailed designs of work cells and determine their impact on alternative implementation strategies.

Keywords: decision analysis: systems; production/scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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