Methods for Designing Manufacturing Systems

这项研究的目的是开发和比较不同的制造系统设计方法。制造系统设计可以看作是通过数值性能度量指定的性能需求到指定有能力的设计方案的数值决策变量之间的映射。本研究的研究方法在两个方面都是新颖的。首先，它们针对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，在这些问题中，性能要求涉及多种类型的性能衡量(例如，生产率和在制品平均工作)，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、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).//