Production set of failure prone flexible manufacturing systems

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Article

Publication Date

2000

Abstract

For a flexible manufacturing system, determining the feasible production set at a given time is essential for production management. In this paper, we propose methods for estimating the production set for a general multi–part type failure prone flexible manufacturing system. We also discuss how to get an open loop control that can ensure the system producing at the margin of its expected production set and how to estimate the corresponding variance of the expected production set. Some special flexible manufacturing systems are discussed where we also suggest some simpler approximations. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate our algorithm.

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