Production Scheduling in a Flexible Manufacturing System under Random Demand

• Main Authors: MOOSA, Sharafali, CO, Henry C., GOH, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: Flexible manufacturing system; Part-family formulation; Polling systems; Operations and Supply Chain Management; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/887; https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(03)00300-x
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper considers the problem of production scheduling in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) with stochastic demand. With FMS, there is inherent flexibility made available to production. However, it is not always that the entire mix of parts can be processed simultaneously. As such, grouping o...