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SME MS94-199
- Sequencing Single-Gripper Gantry Robots In Tightly-Coupled Automated Serial Production
- standard by Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 06/01/1994
- Publisher: SME
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THIS PAPER DEALS WITH THE PROBLEM OF SCHEDULING SINGLE-GLRIPPER GANTRY ROBOTS IN A TIGHTLY-COUPLED AUTOMATED SERIAL PRODUCTION LINE WITH DETERMINISTIC PROCESSING TIME. AN OPTIMAL SCHEDULE IS PRESENTED FIRST BY ANALYZING THE CYCLE TIME FORMULA FOR TWO- AND THREE-WORKSTATION (m=2, AND 3) PRODUCTION LINES. THEN THE RESULT IS EXTENDED TO THE PROBLEM OF SCHEDULING A PRODUCTION LINE WITH m>3 WORKSTATIONS AND AN OPTIMAL SCHEDULE IS DEVELOPED. THIS STUDY PROVIDED VALUABLE INSIGHTS FOR THE DESIGN AND SCHEDULINE OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS USING SIMILAR MATERIAL HANDLING MECHANISMS.