Design of Flexible Assembly Systems

小行星9500211 该奖项为研究提供资金，这些研究将为优化大规模灵活装配设计问题的整数规划公式建立科学基础。 设计决策，将解决包括规定系统配置，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，如分配任务的机器，选择工具和规定工具转换;和接口的操作问题，如模型排序和批量大小。 具体的研究目标是：综合、最先进的分支和切割实施;有效的刻面生成方法;评估该方法的计算测试;与工业界合作，确保相关性并促进技术转让。 如果成功的话，这项研究将导致一个先进的技术基础，通过设计新的方法，以确保设计的鲁棒性，结合最近的进展，从该地区的装配序列规划，处理相关方面的设计，并确保一个通用的解决方案的方法，可以针对特定的应用程序的功能。 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. ***