Scheduling Technique for Customised Parts with Modular Fixtures in On-Demand Fixture Manufacturing Cells

The growing interest in mass customization has necessitated the implementation of flexible fixtures in manufacturing. Scheduling techniques for traditional fixtures are incapable of handling those of the flexible type. The paper presents a scheduling technique for reconfigurable modular fixtures wit...

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Main Authors: Naidoo, Enrico, Padayachee, Jared, Bright, Glen
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
cellular manufacturing
clustering
Clustering algorithms
Fixtures
heuristics
Job shop scheduling
Manufacturing systems
modular fixtures
Pins
Schedules
Scheduling algorithms
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Summary:The growing interest in mass customization has necessitated the implementation of flexible fixtures in manufacturing. Scheduling techniques for traditional fixtures are incapable of handling those of the flexible type. The paper presents a scheduling technique for reconfigurable modular fixtures with customized parts. A cellular manufacturing system is employed. A dedicated cell is implemented as a facilitator of the reconfigurations and recirculation of fixtures. The scheduling method creates fixture-part mappings, which are then optimally sequenced on each fixture to minimize the degree of reconfiguration required, before the fixture and part operations are scheduled in-tandem to locally minimize the idle times in the manufacturing system described.
ISSN:1948-3457
DOI:10.1109/ICCA.2018.8444201