Research

year 1989 
author Chankwon Park 
Keyword FMS, Tool Magazine Capacity, Alternative Routings, Heuristics, Part Type Selection 
Abstract The existing approaches for FMS part type selection problems do not consider tool magazine capacity constraints or alternative part programs. However, to obtain better production schedules at operational levels of a hierarchical structure, this thesis constructs more realistic formulation which considers alternative routings and tool magazine capacity constraints. Also the thesis presents two types of heuristic solutions in which integer constraints of the formulation are solved first and then the rest of the constraints are formulated by LP. And an example is exhibited to validate the efficiency of the algorithm. 
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