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Production Planning in Automated Manufacturing /

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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. The bo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crama, Yves
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Oerlemans, Alwin G., Spieksma, Frits C. R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1996.
Edition:Second, rev. and enlarged edition.
Subjects:
Economics.
Structural control (Engineering)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Automated manufacturing
  • Throughput rate optimization in the automated assembly of printed circuit boards
  • Approximation algorithms for three-dimensional assignment problems with triangle inequalities
  • Scheduling jobs of equal length: complexity, facets and computational results
  • The tool loading problem: an overview
  • A column generation approach to job grouping
  • The job grouping problem for flexible manufacturing systems: some extensions
  • A local search approach to job grouping
  • Minimizing the number of tool switches on a flexible machine.