Production Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems

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1. Flexible Assembly Systems - Hardware Components and Features1.1 Basic components of a FAS -- 1.2 Classification of flexible assembly systems -- 1.3 Examples of industrial installations -- 2. Issues in Design, Planning and Scheduling of Flexible Assembly -- 2.1 FAS design issues -- 2.2 Network design for material flow systems -- 2.3 Design for assembly -- 2.4 Assembly planning -- 2.5 Planning and scheduling -- 3. Loading and Routing Decisions in Flexible Assembly Systems -- 3.1 Description of a flexible assembly system -- 3.2 Optimization of station workloads and product movements -- 3.3 Design and balancing of flexible assembly lines -- 3.4 Numerical examples -- 3.5 Simultaneous loading and routing -- 3.6 Sequential loading and routing -- 4. Loading and Routing Decisions with Assembly Plan Selection -- 4.1 Simultaneous loading, routing and assembly plan selection in a general flexible assembly system -- 4.2 Simultaneous loading, routing and assembly plan selection in a flexible assembly line -- 5. Loading and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Cells -- 5.1 Loading and scheduling in a robot assembly cell -- 5.2 Loading and sequencing in printed circuit board assembly -- 6. Production Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Lines -- 6.1 Flexible assembly line with limited intermediate buffers -- 6.2 Flexible assembly line with no in-process buffers -- 6.3 Global lower bounds for flexible flow lines with unlimited buffers -- 6.4 Just-in-time scheduling of flexible assembly lines -- 6.5 Multilevel scheduling of flexible assembly lines with limited intermediate buffers -- 7. Machine and Vehicle Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems -- 7.1 Dispatching scheduling -- 7.2 Machine and vehicle scheduling - a multi-level approach -- 7.3 Machine and vehicle scheduling - a single-level approach -- References.

10.1007/978-3-642-58614-9 [DOI]

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