Optimal Design of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

✍ Scribed by Dr. Ulrich A. W. Tetzlaff (auth.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Series: Contributions to Management Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Flexible manufacturing systems are complex production systems with considerable high investment costs. This book intends to show the reader how the design of such a system can be optimized. Thereby it addresses the academic world in management science and industrial engineering as well as system planners in industry. First the design problems are analysed in detail and a planning concept is presented. Afterwards possible tools for the design process are described, as there are: mathematical programming, queueing networks, computer simulation, perturbation analysis, petri nets, group technology, and knowledge based systems. The major part of the book, however, concerns the description of existing optimization models based on mathematical programming. Each model is explained and discussed in detail and for new models, developed by the author, numerical examples are given. Finally some distinct guidelines are presented which help the system planners to select the appropriate model for their planning problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Overview....Pages 3-5
Flexible manufacturing systems....Pages 5-11
Planning problems of flexible manufacturing systems....Pages 11-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The design process....Pages 17-22
A concept for the design process....Pages 22-26
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Tools for the design process....Pages 29-51
Modelling the basic planning stage....Pages 51-62
Models for the optimal design of flexible manufacturing systems....Pages 62-163
Conclusions and directions for further research....Pages 163-166
Back Matter....Pages 166-190

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Operation Research/Decision Theory; Organization/Planning