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Chapter and Conference Paper
Backtracking of Jobs and Machine Location Problems
In flexible manufacturing systems, production lines are often laid out along a linear track. In these lines, facilities engineers attempt to simplify the workflow of jobs by avoiding a job shop structure in fa...
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Chapter
Emerging trends in assembly
In early studies of assembly by Walker and Guest (1952) after World War II, the focus was on manual assembly work in the context of mass production. An emerging technological trend at that time was the assembl...
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Chapter
Introduction and fundamental concepts of assembly
The purpose of Chapter 1 is to provide the reader with an overview of the scope of assembly. The chapter begins by describing the fundamental concepts and characteristics of assembly, followed by a review of i...
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Chapter
Design for assembly
In the ‘old days’ assembly methods were selected by engineers only after the product design had been completed, approved and authorized. As long as all the assembly work was manual, human assemblers could be e...
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Chapter
Assembly system design and planning
This chapter deals with key aspects of designing and planning assembly systems. Until recently, assembly has been considered by many to be a low technology process, and its costs and importance may have been u...
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Sequencing and scheduling of assembly operations
Design, planning and performance evaluation — the topics of Chapters 4, 5 and 6 — establish the system in which assembly operations are performed. Decisions based on design, planning and performance evaluation...
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Quality and inspection in assembly
Assembly is often described as the ‘moment of truth’ for products, when finally complete subassemblies, and then the full assembly, can be tested. But it is also recognized that assembly is where previous defe...
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Chapter
Assembly tasks and technology
Toddlers all over the world are often given toys to teach them, quite early in life, basic assembly skills. Some toys have pegs of different shapes to be inserted in matching openings in a box. Other toys have...
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Chapter
Design of assembly systems
The success of any assembly system depends on the translation of its design into an implemented working facility. The purpose of this chapter is to describe and explain the system elements and how they are com...
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Chapter
Performance evaluation of stochastic assembly systems
The engineer designing an assembly system is typically concerned with comparing alternative designs and must be able to evaluate the performance that each might achieve in the long run in order to select the m...
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Chapter
Time-managed material flow control
One unique aspect of assembly is that it involves the merging of part flows. Assembly logistics thus require thoughtful coordination of material flows and present significant challenges to material flow manage...
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Article
Locating sets of identical machines in a linear layout
The assignment of M unique machines to M locations with the objective of minimizing the total machine-to-machine material transportation cost in a flow line may be formulated as a quadratic assignment problem ...
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Article
A Column-Generation Approach for the Assembly System Design Problem with Tool Changes
This assembly system design problem (ASDP) is to prescribe the minimum-cost assignment of machines, tooling, and tasks to stations, observing task precedence relationships and cycle time requirements. The ASDP...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Industrial engineering and operations research — the interface
Edited by Saul I. Gass and Carl M. Harris
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Article
A Technical Review of Column Generation in Integer Programming
This paper provides a technical review of topics relevant to applying column generation methods to solve integer programs but emphasizes formulation issues as a means of achieving its goal, which is to bridge ...
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Article
Enabling flexibility on a dual head placement machine by optimizing platform-tray-feeder picking operations
The typical circuit card assembly line includes one or more dual head placement machines (DHPMs), which are capable of highly accurate placement and promise the flexibility to assemble a broad variety of circu...
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Article
A generalization of column generation to accelerate convergence
This paper proposes a generalization of column generation, reformulating the master problem with fewer variables at the expense of adding more constraints; the sub-problem structure does not change. It shows b...
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Article
OR/MS decision support models for the specialty crops industry: a literature review
Specialty crops (fruits, vegetables, grapes and wine, ornamentals—nursery and floriculture—tree nuts, berries, and dried fruits) comprise a substantial—and growing—portion of agribusiness. Still, the industry ...
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Chapter
On the Relationships Among Facility Location, Transportation Mode Selection and Material Flow Costs in Global Supply Chains
This chapter, which explores the interplay between three significant factors in global supply chains, holds two research objectives. The first is a model to maximize after tax profit by prescribing facility lo...
