| ECE6557 -
Manufacturing Systems Design
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| Prerequisites:
None |
| Corequisites:
None |
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| Catalog Description:
Analytic and simulation tools for design, control and optimization of
manufacturing systems. Discrete event dynamic systems and optimization. |
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Textbook(s):
Cassandras & Lafortune, Introduction to Discrete Event Systems (2nd edition), Kluwer, 1999. (required)
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Topical Outline:
Introduction (1 week)
The importance of optimization in manufacturing
Production control strategies
The relationship between design, control and optimization
The role of simulation in systems optimization
The Manufacturing Layout Problem (3 weeks)
Cell design and machine grouping within a cell
Inter-cell layout problems and resource allocation
Optimization methods: simulated annealing and genetic algorithms
Resource Allocation Problems (4 weeks)
Resource allocation in manufacturing systems
Modeling by discrete event dynamic systems
Perturbation analysis
Petri networks and event graphs
Cycle-time optimization
Numerical simulation and optimization techniques
Supply Managament and Control (3 weeks)
Inventory and backlogging
Uncertain yield times and their effects on production schedules
Optimal supply managament: numerical algorithms
Scheduling Problems (3 weeks)
NP hardness and instability
The perturbation problem and sensitivity analysis
Numerical optimization
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