Flexible manufacturing system structural control and the Neighborhood Policy, part 2. Generalization, optimization, and efficiency

Mark Lawley, Spyros Reveliotis, Placid Ferreira

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Abstract

In the first of this pair of papers, the Neighborhood Policy was shown to be a correct and scalable Structural Control Policy (SCP). Operating constraints that guarantee deadlock-free flexible manufacturing system (FMS) operation are generated based on machine capacity. For some systems these constraints appear to be quite conservative. This paper generalizes the Neighborhood Policy so that many different SCPs can be generated for the same FMS configuration. A method of finding permissive neighborhood systems is then developed. Finally, SCP efficiency is defined and investigated for Capacity-Based and Optimal Neighborhood Policies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)889-899
Number of pages11
JournalIIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)
Volume29
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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