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A real-time methodology for minimizing mean flowtime in FMSs with routing flexibility: Threshold-based alternate routing

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Özmutlu, Seda

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Harmonosky, Catherine M.

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This paper presents an efficient continuous real-time routing strategy, namely threshold-based alternate routing (TAR), to minimize mean flowtime of parts in a FMS with routing flexibility. TAR routes parts to alternate machines instead of their primary machines when the benefit in terms of waiting time obtained from routing to an alternate machine exceeds a pre-determined threshold value. This study proposes that the threshold value for each manufacturing system is unique and presents a methodology for determining its unique value. The threshold concept and the performance of TAR in minimizing mean flowtime are tested with extensive experimentation, involving intricate experimental design. TAR provides very significant improvements in system performance measures compared to other real-time rerouting methods and shows that the threshold value is unique and dependent on system parameters for each manufacturing system. The relationship between the threshold value and system parameters has also been determined.

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Flexible manufacturing systems, Scheduling, Routing flexibility, Alternate routings, Alternate machine selection, Flexible manufacturing systems, Selection, Operational control rules, Genetic algorithm, Performance, Simulation, Impact, Business & economics, Operations research & management science, Control system analysis, Costs, Optimization, Real time systems, Regression analysis, Threshold-based alternate routing (TAR)

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Özmutlu, S. ve Harmonosky, C. M. (2005). "A real-time methodology for minimizing mean flowtime in FMSs with routing flexibility: Threshold-based alternate routing". European Journal of Operational Research, 166(2), 369-384.

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