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Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Systems – ICMaS

Published by Editura Academiei Române, ISSN 1842-3183

Volume No. 1,  2006

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Machine and Manufacturing Systems Department

Bucharest, Romania, 26 – 27 October, 2006

 

pp. 349-352

 

THE EVALUATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MODEL OF THE OPTIMIZATION OF A FLEXIBLE ASSEMBLY SYSTEM

 

Adriana FOTA

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Abstract: Many reconfigurable conveyor-components have been developed for the construction assembly line systems. The components have different transporting paths, shapes, sizes, etc. This paper describes a genetic algorithm to configure those reconfigurable conveyor-components forming a flexible assembly line system to meet the ever-changing production requirements. The transporting paths, shapes and sizes of reconfigurable conveyor-components are coded into binary string as chromosome to represent an assembly line layout for analysis and evaluation. The three evolutionary processes generate the layouts: selection, crossover, and mutation. The process of updating control parameters is integrated into the genetic algorithm  to improve the performance and efficiency of the evolutionary processes. The reconfiguration of a flexible  assembly line system to meet the requirements of minimization of the number of  reconfigurable conveyor- components and the provision of alternative processes paths are discussed in detail in the paper.

 

Key words: flexible assembly system, optimisation, reconfiguration.

 

Author:

Dr. Eng. Adriana FOTA, Assoc. Prof., "Transilvania" University

of Braşov, Economic Engineering and Manufacturing

Systems Department, Romania, E-mail: fota.a@unitbv.ro

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