Resource Allocation and Job Dispatching for Unreliable Flexible Flow Shop Manufacturing System

• DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.445.947
• Publication Date: 2012-02-10T10:19:48Z
• Authors: Umar M. Al-Turki; Haitham Saleh; Tamer Deyab; Yasser Almoghathawi
• Keywords: Workstation; Job shop; Discrete-Event Simulation; Batch production; Flexible manufacturing system

Resource allocation, product batching and production scheduling are three different problems in manufacturing systems of structures such as flexible flow shop systems. These usually dealt with independently for a certain objective function related to efficiency effectiveness. Handling all them an integrated manner is challenge facing many practice that increases highly complicated stochastic Random arrival products, machine setup time requirements, unexpected breakdowns, multiple conflicting functions some the common complications This research attempts study problem under mentioned various functions. The decisions parameters batch size, number machines at each workstation, dispatching policy. Discrete event simulation used optimization tools. system modeled using ARENA software scenarios tested optimum parameter selection conditions.