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IOR
2006
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Inventory Policies in a Decentralized Assembly System
We consider a system in which a single finished good is assembled from two components. Demand for the finished product is stochastic and stationary, and procurement and assembly l...
Fernando Bernstein, Gregory A. DeCroix
CDC
2010
IEEE
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12 years 11 months ago
Dynamic product assembly and inventory control for maximum profit
We consider a manufacturing plant that purchases raw materials for product assembly and then sells the final products to customers. There are M types of raw materials and K types o...
Michael J. Neely, Longbo Huang
CDC
2008
IEEE
117views Control Systems» more  CDC 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Event-based optimization for dispatching policies in material handling systems of general assembly lines
—A material handling (MH) system of a general assembly line dispatching parts from inventory to working buffers could be complicated and costly to operate. Generally it is extrem...
Yanjia Zhao, Qianchuan Zhao, Qing-Shan Jia, Xiaoho...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
106views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Stochastic strategies for a swarm robotic assembly system
— We present a decentralized, scalable approach to assembling a group of heterogeneous parts into different products using a swarm of robots. While the assembly plans are predete...
Loic Matthey, Spring Berman, Vijay Kumar
MOR
2006
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Optimal Control of a High-Volume Assemble-to-Order System
This paper provides guidance for operating an assemble-to-order system to maximize expected discounted profit, assuming that a high volume of prospective customers arrive per unit...
Erica L. Plambeck, Amy R. Ward