Dynamic Scheduling and Routing for Flexible Manufacturing Systems that Have Unreliable Machines

Oded Z. Maimon and Stanley B. Gershwin
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Oded Z. Maimon: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Stanley B. Gershwin: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Operations Research, 1988, vol. 36, issue 2, 279-292

Abstract: This paper presents a method for real-time scheduling and routing of material in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS). It extends the earlier scheduling work of Kimemia and Gershwin in which the FMS model includes machines that fail at random times and stay down for random lengths of time. The new element is the capability of different machines to perform some of the same operations. The times that different machines require to perform the same operation may differ. This paper includes a model, its analysis, a real-time algorithm, and examples.

Keywords: 111 dynamic programming; 331 inventory and production; 581 production and scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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