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in Two in Two in Two in Two----Stage Flowshops Stage Flowshops Stage Flowshops
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2000
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G. Vairaktarakis;M. Elhafsi
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作者:
G. Vairaktarakis;M. Elhafsi
Flexible manufacturing systems are often designed as (cid:223) owshops supported by automated material handling devices that facilitate routing among any two processors of adjacent stages. This routing structure is complex, and results in excessive capital investment and costs of management. In this paper we propose a decomposition of two stage (cid:223) owshops into smaller independent (cid:223) owlines that allow for unidirectional routing only. We solve optimally the problem of minimizing makespan on 2 parallel (cid:223) owlines, by means of a dynamic programming algorithm (DP). Based on DP we develop lower bounds on the throughput performance of environments that consist of more than two (cid:223) owlines. We present several heuristic algorithms and report their optimality gaps. Using these algorithms, we show that the decomposition of two stage (cid:223) owshops with complicated routing into (cid:223) owline-like designs with unidirectional routing is associated with minor losses in throughput performance, and hence signi (cid:222) cant savings in material handling costs.