Real-time tool control and job dispatching in flexible manufacturing systems

1 August 1989

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Production Research

Vol. 27 (8) , 1257-1267
https://doi.org/10.1080/00207548908942621

Abstract

A method of loading a set of tools to the different machining centres of a shop is presented, where each part visits only one of the machining centres for its entire processing. Any tools which are required but unavailable for the processing of a part are borrowed from other machining centres. As a real-time control, the tool-returning policies for those borrowed tools and the job-dispatching rules at the machining centres are evaluated to maximize the throughput performance of the shop. Some experimental results are provided.

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