Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Publication Title

proceeding WAC, Budapest, Hungary

First Page

1

Keywords

Lagrangian relaxation, Maxwell equations, VS-Patterns, information access, manufacturing plants, online scheduling, planning, reconfigurable manufacturing systems, reference pattern, temporal difference, virtual supervisory algorithm

Last Page

8

Abstract

In this paper, a scheduling method is developed provide planning for manufacturing plants with multiple coordinating cells. The controls for reconfigurable manufacturing systems have to be capable not only of identifying exceptions on-line, but also simultaneously developing on-line strategies for unpredictable customer order changes or inaccurate estimate of processing times. The approach exploits virtual supervisor (VS) concept developing an algorithm which provides access to all system information during program execution and thus can readily monitor the overall system performance creating reference pattern. The goal is to minimize expected costs of part tardiness and/or earliness. A solution methodology based on a combined Lagrangian relaxation, VS-Patterns, Maxwell equations and temporal difference is developed to reduce the computational requirements for large problems. Sequences pattern shows that near optimal schedules can be obtained a dual solution for on-line implementation.

DOI

10.1109/WAC.2006.375970

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