TY - GEN
T1 - Cyclic production for robotic cells served by multi-function robots with resumable processing regime
AU - Foumani, M.
AU - Ibrahim, M. Y.
AU - Gunawan, I.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2014/11/18
Y1 - 2014/11/18
N2 - This paper addresses the problem of finding the optimal robot move cycle to minimise the cycle time of two-machine cells. The earlier robot's function was mainly moving parts between machines in a manufacturing process. We lift this assumption on robot tasks and assumed a special robot, namely multi-function, which performs a unique operation in transit. This robot starts performing this operation after unloading a part from input buffer and finishes it before loading the part to the output buffer. The processing mode on robot is 'stop resume'. Thus, regardless of the gap interrupts during the operation, the robot continues processing on part when it is reloaded to the robot without any loss in time. The focus of this study is on one-unit cycles since they are very popular in industry. The cycle time of two possible one-unit cycles is obtained, and the optimality condition of them is determined.
AB - This paper addresses the problem of finding the optimal robot move cycle to minimise the cycle time of two-machine cells. The earlier robot's function was mainly moving parts between machines in a manufacturing process. We lift this assumption on robot tasks and assumed a special robot, namely multi-function, which performs a unique operation in transit. This robot starts performing this operation after unloading a part from input buffer and finishes it before loading the part to the output buffer. The processing mode on robot is 'stop resume'. Thus, regardless of the gap interrupts during the operation, the robot continues processing on part when it is reloaded to the robot without any loss in time. The focus of this study is on one-unit cycles since they are very popular in industry. The cycle time of two possible one-unit cycles is obtained, and the optimality condition of them is determined.
KW - Cycle time
KW - Multi-function robot
KW - Stop resume
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84914155952&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962472
DO - 10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962472
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84914155952
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
SP - 551
EP - 555
BT - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2013
Y2 - 10 December 2013 through 13 December 2013
ER -