Effective Resource Management in Manufacturing Systems Optimization Algorithms for Production Planning /

• Main Authors: Caramia, Massimiliano (Author), Dell’Olmo, Paolo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Series: Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Manufacturing industries.; Machines.; Tools.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.

Manufacturing systems, regardless of their size, have to work with scarce resources in dynamic environments. Managers are asked to assign production facilities over time to parallel activities respecting operational constraints and deadlines while keeping resource costs as low as possible. Thus, cla...

Table of Contents:

• Manufacturing Systems: Trends, Classification, and Behavior Patterns
• On-Line Load Balancing
• Resource Levelling
• Scheduling Jobs in Robotized Cells with Multiple Shared Resources
• Tool Management on Flexible Machines.