Multi-objective scheduling in PCB assembly manufacturing : discrete event simulation approach

• Main Author: Zuo, Jie
• Other Authors: Appa Iyer Sivakumar
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Manufacturing
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61590
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In PCB Assembly manufacturing environment, there are usually three objectives to achieve – minimizing setup cost, minimizing average cycle time, and minimizing job lateness. With the re-entrant trait of PCB Assembly system, scheduling job release is a complicated but crucial problem which plays an i...