TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Lean buffering is the smallest buffer capacity, which is necessary and sufficient to ensure the desired production rate of a manufacturing system. Literature offers methods for des...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Deformation at contacts between the workpiece and locators/clamps resulting from large contact forces causes overall workpiece displacement, and affects the localization accuracy o...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Group elevator scheduling has long been recognized as an important problem for building transportation efficiency, since unsatisfactory elevator service is one of the major complai...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper addresses the general single-machine earliness-tardiness problem with distinct release dates, due dates, and unit costs. The aim of this research is to obtain an exact n...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Maintaining an asset with life-limited parts, e.g., a jet engine or an electric generator, may be costly. Certain costs, e.g., setup cost, can be shared if some parts of the asset ...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
In this paper we deal with the problem of modeling railway networks with Petri nets so as to apply the theory of supervisory control for discrete event systems to automatically de...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
This work intends to deal with the optimal kinematic synthesis problem of parallel manipulators under a unified framework. Observing that regular (e.g., hyper-rectangular) workspac...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Dynamic programming, branch-and-bound, and constraint programming are the standard solution principles for nding optimal solutions to machine scheduling problems. We propose a new ...
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract--The use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in material-handling processes of manufacturing facilities and warehouses isbecomingincreasinglycommon.AcriticaldrawbackofanAG...