A LOAD-ROUTEING PROBLEM IN A TANDEM-CONFIGURATION AUTOMATED GUIDED-VEHICLE SYSTEM

被引：30

作者：

LIN, JT

CHANG, CCK

LIU, WC

机构：

[1] Department of Industrial Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, TWN

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH | 1994年 / 32卷 / 02期

关键词：

Automation - Decision theory - Flexible manufacturing systems - Mathematical models - Optimization - Queueing theory - Systems analysis;

D O I：

10.1080/00207549408956941

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 ;

摘要：

Automated guided vehicles are commonly employed in modern automated material-handling systems or flexible manufacturing systems. A new configuration for an automated guided-vehicle system (AGVS), called a tandem AGVS, has been proposed recently. Efficient use of this configuration is required to solve the load-routeing problem (LRP), a specific operational issue which affects the production system performance. In this paper, LRPs are studied and a two-phase approach is proposed to solve it. Phase 1 consists of an analytical approach based on the steady state. The output of phase 1 provides an adequate estimate and recommendation of routeing decisions of an operational system. Phase 2 is a simulation model which accepts the results from phase 1 to realize the impact of another operational performance such as the queue length of each station. It has been established that the LRP affects the operational performance of the AGVS.

引用

页码：411 / 427

页数：17

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