Paper Info
Title
The effectiveness of supervisory control strategies in scheduling flexible manufacturing systems
Abstract
The results of an experimental study of the supervisory control of a simulated flexible manufacturing system (FMS) are discussed. A real-time simulator of an FMS, (Georgia Tech-FMS (GT-FMS)) was implemented and configured with data from a real manufacturing system. An experiment was run in which humans interacted with the automatic control system of GT-FMS with the goal of improving overall system performance by meeting due data while simultaneously minimizing inventory. Experimental results show that with human supervision both due data and inventory performance of GT-FMS can be improved. The results strongly support the idea of actively integrating humans into operational controls of automated manufacturing environments
Year
DOI
Venue
1988
10.1109/21.3462
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital simulation,flexible manufacturing systems,human factors,production control,scheduling,stock control,FMS,GT-FMS,automated manufacturing,digital simulation,due data,flexible manufacturing systems,human factors,human supervision,inventory,production control,scheduling,supervisory control strategies
Computer-aided manufacturing,Production control,Control theory,Computer science,Supervisory control,Computer-integrated manufacturing,Automatic control,Flexible manufacturing system,Process control,Reliability engineering,Manufacturing execution system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
2
0018-9472
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
2.79
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dunkler, O.1152.79
C. M. Mitchell214125.01
T. Govindaraj310931.56
Ammons, J.C.4203.74