Production Planning and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems

1. Flexible Assembly Systems — Hardware Components and Features.- 1.1 Basic components of a FAS.- 1.2 Classification of flexible assembly systems.- 1.3 Examples of industrial installations.- 2. Issues in Design, Planning and Scheduling of Flexible Assembly.- 2.1 FAS design issues.- 2.2 Network design for material flow systems.- 2.3 Design for assembly.- 2.4 Assembly planning.- 2.5 Planning and scheduling.- 3. Loading and Routing Decisions in Flexible Assembly Systems.- 3.1 Description of a flexible assembly system.- 3.2 Optimization of station workloads and product movements.- 3.3 Design and balancing of flexible assembly lines.- 3.4 Numerical examples.- 3.5 Simultaneous loading and routing.- 3.6 Sequential loading and routing.- 4. Loading and Routing Decisions with Assembly Plan Selection.- 4.1 Simultaneous loading, routing and assembly plan selection in a general flexible assembly system.- 4.2 Simultaneous loading, routing and assembly plan selection in a flexible assembly line.- 5. Loading and Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Cells.- 5.1 Loading and scheduling in a robot assembly cell.- 5.2 Loading and sequencing in printed circuit board assembly.- 6. Production Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Lines.- 6.1 Flexible assembly line with limited intermediate buffers.- 6.2 Flexible assembly line with no in-process buffers.- 6.3 Global lower bounds for flexible flow lines with unlimited buffers.- 6.4 Just-in-time scheduling of flexible assembly lines.- 6.5 Multilevel scheduling of flexible assembly lines with limited intermediate buffers.- 7. Machine and Vehicle Scheduling in Flexible Assembly Systems.- 7.1 Dispatching scheduling.- 7.2 Machine and vehicle scheduling — a multi-level approach.- 7.3 Machine and vehicle scheduling — a single-level approach.- References.

The book presents the latest research in flexible assembly systems