In this book quantitative approaches are proposed for production planning problems in automated manufacturing. In particular techniques from operations research/combinatorial optimization provide ways to tackle these problems. Special attention is devoted to the efficient use of tools in...

In this book quantitative approaches are proposed for production planning problems in automated manufacturing. In particular, techniques from operations research provide ways to tackle these problems. Special attention is given to the efficient use of tools in automated manufacturing systems....

Assembling printed circuit boards effciently using automated placement machines is a challenging task. Here, we focus on a motion control problem for a specific type of placement machines. More specifically,the problem is to establish movement patterns for the robot arm, the feeder rack,and...