Production Line Performance Optimisation
report
To assess the practical performance of a system, one needs to consider the system in its operating environment. This report presents an approach for analysing and optimising the performance of High-Mix Low-Volume (HMLV) automated production lines. The approach comprises three methods: (1) a method to specify a production line’s equipment, workload and allocation, (2) a method based on constraint graphs to compute the latency of a specified allocation, and (3) a method based on constraint programming to find the optimal allocation of a production line’s workload on its equipment. Experiment results show that allocation analysis is feasible for large instances, but that allocation optimisation lacks scalability, i.e. it is only feasible for small instances. The report suggests alternative methods to improve this allocation optimisation scalability.
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TNO Identifier
1016638
Publisher
TNO
Collation
38 p.
Place of publication
Eindhoven