Planning transport sequences for flexible manufacturing systems

• When designing a manufacturing system it is important to plan what the systemshould do. One important activity in most manufacturing systems is to transport products orresources between different positions. In a flexible manufacturing system it can be challengingto design and plan these transport operations due to their complex logical behavior. This paperpresents a method that identifies, creates and visualizes these transport operations based oninputs from a standard virtual manufacturing tool and a high level product operation recipe.The planning of the created transport operations is transformed into a problem of finding anon-blocking solution for a discrete model of the product refinement.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Sequence planning

Manufacturing operations

Supervisory control

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