Methods for Designing Manufacturing Systems

本研究的目的是发展和比较设计制造系统的不同方法。制造系统设计可以看作是性能需求的映射，借助于数值性能度量，映射到数值决策变量上，从而指定一个有能力的设计解决方案。本研究的方法在两个方面是新颖的。首先，它们针对的是各种各样的制造系统类型（流水线、作业车间、蜂窝系统等）。其次，它们可以适应制造系统设计问题，其中性能要求涉及多种类型的性能度量（例如，生产率和过程中的平均工作量），并且设计解决方案涉及多种类型的决策变量（例如，机器数量和机器布局和缓冲能力）。//

The goal of this research is to develop and compare different methods of designing manufacturing systems. Manufacturing system design can be regarded as the mapping of performance requirements, specified with the help of numerical performance measures, onto numerical decision variables which specify a capable design solution. The methods investigated in this research are novel in two respects. First, they are targeted at a wide variety of manufacturing system types (flow lines, job shops, cellular system, etc.). Second, they can accommodate manufacturing system design problems in which the performance requirements involve multiple types of performance measures (e.g., production rate and average work in process), and in which design solutions involve multiple types of decision variables (e.g., machine quantities and machine layout and buffer capacities).//