A dispatching rule-based approach to production scheduling in a printed circuit board manufacturing system

This paper focuses on a production-scheduling problem in a printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing system that produces multiple product types with different due dates and different manufacturing processes. In the PCB manufacturing system, there is a number of serial workstations, and there are mu...

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Published in:The Journal of the Operational Research Society 2003-10, Vol.54 (10), p.1038-1049
Main Authors: Lee, G-C, Kim, Y-D, Kim, J-G, Choi, S-H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Business and Management
Case-oriented Paper
Case-Oriented Papers
Circuit boards
Dispatching
dispatching rules
Drilling
Electronics industry
Etching
Exact sciences and technology
Inventory control, production control. Distribution
Lateness
Machinery
Management
Manufacturing
Manufacturing processes
Methods
Modeling
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Operations research
Operations Research/Decision Theory
printed circuit board manufacturing
Printed circuit boards
Printed circuits
Production scheduling
Scheduling
Simulation
Studies
Work stations
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Summary:This paper focuses on a production-scheduling problem in a printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing system that produces multiple product types with different due dates and different manufacturing processes. In the PCB manufacturing system, there is a number of serial workstations, and there are multiple parallel machines at each workstation. Also, setup operations are required at certain workstations or machines, and some product types have re-entrant flows. We develop new dispatching rules for scheduling at each workstation, considering the special features of PCB manufacturing. With the dispatching rules, we determine not only the start time of each lot at a machine but also the batch size of each product at each machine. Simulation experiments are carried out to test the performance of the production-scheduling method and dispatching rules devised in this study. Results show that the production-scheduling method suggested in this study performs better than methods with well-known dispatching rules and heuristic algorithms for lot sizing in terms of the total tardiness of orders.
ISSN:0160-5682
1476-9360
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601601