Title
Process sequencing and process clustering in process planning using state space search
Abstract
Process sequencing, as a very important part of process planning, has been the subject of many research reports in the area of process planning, but is usually treated as a feature-sequencing problem. This paper presents a novel algorithm for process sequencing, which considers the feature precedence network, different process candidates, and machine and tool constraints. The algorithm consists of two parts: process clustering and process sequencing. For clustering we used a notion of the same resource usage for different features, while for sequencing we applied the best-first search method algorithm to generate an optimal process sequence. The algorithm has been applied on several examples with realistic complexities, and it showed satisfactory results.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1007/BF00118079
J. Intelligent Manufacturing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Process planning,process sequencing,state space search
Work in process,State space search,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Cluster analysis,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3
0956-5515
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
1.61
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dusan N. Sormaz1355.07
Behrokh Khoshnevis212514.25