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An efficient method to determine the optimal configuration of a flexible manufacturing system. (English) Zbl 0708.90037

Summary: A frequently encountered design issue for a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is to find the lowest cost configuration, i.e. the number of resources of each type (machines, pallets,...), which achieves a given production rate. In this paper, an efficient method to determine this optimal configuration is presented. The FMS is modelled as a closed queueing network. The proposed procedure first derives a heuristic solution and then the optimal solution. The computational complexity for finding the optimal solution is very reasonable even for large systems, except in some extreme cases. Moreover, the heuristic solution can always be determined and is very close (and often equal) to the optimal solution. A comparison with a previous method of B. Vinod and J. Solberg [Int. J. Prod. Res. 23, 1141-1151 (1985; Zbl 0591.90046)] shows that our method performs very well.

MSC:

90B30 Production models
90C90 Applications of mathematical programming
90-08 Computational methods for problems pertaining to operations research and mathematical programming
90B22 Queues and service in operations research
60K25 Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory)
90B10 Deterministic network models in operations research
90C60 Abstract computational complexity for mathematical programming problems
60K20 Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.)

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Zbl 0591.90046
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