Paper Info
Title
Characterization of continuous precise workload control and analysis of idleness penalty
Abstract
An agent based workload control method is developed.Distinguishing characteristics are highlighted.Release decisions are taken on a continuous time basis with precise load graphs.Successful regulation of workload is achieved. The variability in the market conditions is growing in terms of its frequency of change and range of diversity. In response to this new industrial panorama, research on production systems is aiming to achieve highly reconfigurable shop floors. Frequent changes in such systems require also frequent re-planning with updated information. In this regard the Continuous Precise Workload Control method, is a recent approach aiming at precise control of workload in shop floor with the use of direct load graphs. Supported by a multi-agent platform, it generates dynamic non-periodic release decisions exploiting real time shop floor information. The study in this paper is two folded; (1) the presented workload approach is defined in terms of eight dimensions of the workload control concept in order to highlight its distinctive characteristics and (2) the impact of idleness penalty factor is analyzed by an experiment design in order to investigate its effect on the job release decision. The results show that the idleness penalty factor decreases the idleness of the resources up to a point where the adverse effect is initiated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.cie.2016.06.026
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Workload control,Idleness penalty,Job release
Graph,Mathematical optimization,Workload,Penalty factor,Multi-agent system,Engineering,Market conditions,Design of experiments
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
102
C
0360-8352
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hakan Akillioglu131.42
joao diasferreira200.34
Mauro Onori3469.86