Design of Flexible Assembly Systems

9500211 Wilhelm该奖项为研究提供资金，该研究将为大规模、柔性装配设计问题的优化整数规划公式建立科学基础。将解决的设计决策包括规定系统配置，例如，灵活的生产线或集中的工厂；战略方面，如选择机器；战术方面，如分配任务给机器，选择工具和规定工具转换；并与操作问题，如模型排序和批量大小的接口。具体的研究目标是：综合的、最先进的分支和分支的实施；有效的面生成方法；计算测试来评估方法；与行业合作，确保相关性并促进技术转让。如果成功，这项研究将通过设计新的方法来确保设计的稳健性，结合装配序列规划领域的最新进展，处理设计的相关方面，并确保可针对特定应用特性定制的通用解决方案，从而为装配提供先进的技术基础。此外，这项研究可能会导致整数规划领域的根本性进步，提高解决制造业和相关领域广泛工程问题的能力。＊＊＊

9500211 Wilhelm This award provides funding for research that will establish a science base for optimizing integer programming formulations of large-scale, flexible assembly design problems. Design decisions that will be addressed include prescribing system configuration, for example, flexible lines or focused factories; strategic aspects such as selecting machines; tactical aspects such as assigning tasks to machines, selecting tooling and prescribing tool changeovers; and interfacing with operational issues such as model sequencing and lot sizing. Specific research objectives are: integrated, state-of-the-art branch and cut implementation; effective facet generation approach; computational testing to evaluate the approach; and collaboration with industry, assuring relevancy and facilitating technology transfer. If successful, this research will lead to an advanced technology base for assembly by devising new methods to assure design robustness, incorporating recent advances from the area of assembly sequence planning, dealing with relevant aspects of design, and assuring a generic solution approach that can be tailored to application-specific features. In addition, this research could lead to fundamental advances in the field of integer programming, improving the capability to solve a broad range of engineering problems in manufacturing and related areas. ***