The Operations Assistant: A new manufacturing resource management tool
1990; Elsevier BV; Volume: 9; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0278-6125(90)90038-j
ISSN1878-6642
AutoresBehrokh Samadi, Robert Morris, Luciana Rubin, Wing Shing Wong, B.C. Ekroot,
Tópico(s)Assembly Line Balancing Optimization
ResumoThe Operations Assistant (OA) is an on-line, interactive decision support system designed to help users with the management of a manufacturing facility. It provides information on the current state of the facility and products, along with projections on the fature states of the facility and progress of products. It generates a graphical view of data and the necessary information to make decisions on product entry sequence, work-in-process reduction schemes, labor/ machine/shift assignments, machine maintenance schedules, and capacity/utilization issues. It contains a number of modules which have the capability of suggesting decisions, and these can be exchanged or supplemented for a particular application. The present OA prototype provides two graphical views; the Product View and the Process View. The operating strategy of the line can be modified interactively, and the consequences of the proposed change (as projected by simulation) seen immediately on these views. The user can also ask for suggestions in making operating decisions, using one of several optimization or heuristic algorithms. OA is highly modular and not specific to any one algorithm—other resource management algorithms can be easily added.
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