Heuristics for the design of part-orienting systems Academic Article

abstract

• In many manufacturing systems, parts must be fed to automatic machines in a specific orientation. This is often accomplished by what are known as part-orienting systems (POSs). A POS consists of one or more separate devices that orient parts, usually with multiple orientations. A theoretical analysis along with the development of some heuristic algorithms is carried out in order to treat the problem of efficient selection and ordering of part-orienting devices that make up a POS. It is indicated that the size of such problems can be quite large in the context of flexible manufacturing systems which may require what are known as flexible part-orienting systems for their efficient operation. Computational experiments are performed in order to evaluate the relative performance of the heuristic algorithms. © 1993 Kluwer Academic Publisher.

authors

• Sriskandarajah, Chelliah

author list (cited authors)

• Jaumard, B., Lou, S., Lu, S., Sethi, S. P., & Sriskandarajah, C.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Jaumard, Brigitte||Lou, Sheldon XC||Lu, Shi-Hui||Sethi, Suresh P||Sriskandarajah, Chelliah

publication date

• July 1993

publisher

• Springer Science and Business Media LLC  Publisher

published in

• Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal  Journal

keywords

• Combinatorial Optimization.
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Flexible Part-orienting Systems
• Heuristic Algorithms
• Part-orienting Devices

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/bf01328740

start page

• 167

end page

• 185

volume

• 5

issue

• 3