Abstract
The manufacturing industry cannot stay competitive and survive in today's market without agile adaptation to rapidly changing customers' demands. This in turn requires redesign and re-planning of manufacturing systems more frequently and within shorter lead-time. In our previous work, a generic reconfigurable manufacturing system model was proposed, and corresponding algorithms were implemented. However, machine breakdowns and planned and unplanned maintenance were not considered. By addressing different conditions of machines, this paper uses automata theory and queuing network approaches to derive the throughput of machines that enhances the proposed virtual production line (VPL) design methodology, in which the throughput was originally computed using the deterministic machine processing time. A priority is assigned to each idle machine according to its past performance and adaptive algorithms for reconfiguration are proposed.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Fourth International Conference on Control and Automation |
| Pages | 73-77 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2003 |
| Event | Fourth International Conference on Control and Automation - Montreal, Que., Canada Duration: Jun 10 2003 → Jun 12 2003 |
Other
| Other | Fourth International Conference on Control and Automation |
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| Country/Territory | Canada |
| City | Montreal, Que. |
| Period | 6/10/03 → 6/12/03 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering