Title
The scheduling for parallel machines with periodic maintenance and setup activities
Abstract
This paper tackled a parallel scheduling problem for identical machines with periodic maintenance and sequence-independent setup times under a hybrid make-to-order (MTO) and make-to-stock (MTS) environment. Such a production environment is apparent in many capital-intensive and highly competitive high-tech industries; for example, the thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal-display (TFT LCD) industry. To fully exploit expensive machines, maximum throughput is the objective with the constraints of meeting the promised customer orders in each planning period. In this paper, the time interval of maintenance period is a constant. Hence, the planning period is set equal to corresponding maintenance period in order to reduce the problem complexity. Under such environment and Lime bucket setting, an integer programming (IP) model is developed to find the optimal production quantity and production sequence for each machine for throughput maximization. Finally, a practical example is given to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed IP model to cell assembly of a LCD factory.
Year
Venue
Field
2005
MSV '05: Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods
Periodic maintenance,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Parallel computing,Distributed computing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shu-Hsing Chung111910.75
Yu-ting Tai200.34
Ping-hung Tsai300.34