Optimal Component Assignment and Board Grouping in Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing

References

• Ahmadi J. , Grotzinger S. , Johnson D. Component allocation and partitioning for a dual delivery placement machine. Opns. Res. (1988) 36 176 191 Link, Google Scholar
• Ahmadi R. , Kouvelis P. Staging problem of a dual delivery pick-and-place machine in printed circuit card assembly. Opns. Res. (1994) 42 81 91 Link, Google Scholar
• Ahmadi J. , Ahmadi R. , Matsuo H. , Tirupati D. Component fixture positioning/sequencing for printed circuit board assembly with concurrent operations. Opns. Res. (1995) 43 444 457 Link, Google Scholar
• Ammons J. C. , Lofgren C. B. , McGinnis L. F. A large scale machine loading problem in flexible assembly. Anns. Opns. Res. (1985) 3 319 322 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Ball M. O. , Magazine M. J. Sequencing of insertions in printed circuit board assemblies. Opns. Res. (1988) 36 192 201 Link, Google Scholar
• Bard J. F. A heuristic for minimizing the number of tool switches on a flexible machine. IEE Trans. (1988) 20 382 391 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Brandeau M. L. , Billington C. A. Design of manufacturing cells: Operation assignment in printed circuit board manufacturing. J. Intelligent Manufacturing (1991) 2 95 106 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Chakravarty A. K. , Shtub A. Selecting parts and loading an FMS. Proc. First ORSA/TIMS Conf. on Flexible Manufacturing Systems (1984) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Google Scholar
• Chandrasekharan M. P. , Rajagopalan R. MODROC: An extension of rank order clustering for group technology. Int. J. Prod. Res. (1986) 24 1221 1233 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Crama Y. , Kolen A. W. J. , Oerlemans A. G. , Spieksma F. C. R. Throughput rate optimization in the automated assembly of printed circuit boards. Anns. Opns. Res. (1990) 26 455 480 Google Scholar
• Daskin M. S. , Maimon O. , Shtub A. A branch and bound algorithm for grouping components in printed circuit board production. (1991) . Report 91–05, Department of Industrial Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Google Scholar
• Daskin M. S. An overview of recent research on assigning products to groups for group technology production problems. (1991) . Working paper, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Google Scholar
• Drezner Z. , Nof S. On optimizing bin picking and insertion plans for assembly robots. IEE Trans. (1984) 16 262 270 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Francis R. L. , Hamacher H. W. , Lee C.-Y. , Yeralan S. On automating robotic assembly workplace planning. (1989) . Research report 89-7, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Google Scholar
• Garey M. R. , Johnson D. S. Computers and Intractibility: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (1979) (W. H. Freeman. Co., New York) Google Scholar
• Hillier M. S. , Brandeau M. L. Cost minimization and worload balancing in printed circuit board assembly. (1996) . Working paper, Management Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Google Scholar
• Hwang S. S. , Shogan A. W. Modeling and solving an FMS part selection problem. Int. J. Prod. Res. (1989) 27 1349 1366 Crossref, Google Scholar
• King J. R. Machine-component group formation in group technology. OMEGA (1980a) 8 193 199 Crossref, Google Scholar
• King J. R. Machine-component grouping in production flow analysis: An approach using a rank-order clustering algorithm. Int. J. Prod. Res. (1980b) 18 213 232 Crossref, Google Scholar
• King J. R. , Nakornchai V. Machine-component group formation in group technology: Review and extension. Int. J. Prod. Res. (1982) 20 117 133 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Kouvelis P. , Lee H. L. Block angular structures and the loading problem in flexible manufacturing systems. Opns. Res. (1991) 39 666 676 Link, Google Scholar
• Kusiak A. The part families problem in flexible manufacturing systems. Anns. Opns. Res. (1985) 3 279 300 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Mamer J. W. , Shogan A. W. A constrained capital budgeting problem with application to repair kit selection. Management Sci. (1987) 33 800 806 Link, Google Scholar
• McGinnis L. F. , Ammons J. C. , Carlyle M. , Cranmer L. , DePuy G. W. , Ellis K. P. , Tovey C. A. , Xu H. Automated process planning for printed circuit card assembly. IEE Trans. (1992) 24 18 30 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Sarin S. C. , Chen S. C. The machine loading and tool allocation problem in an FMS. Int. J. Prod. Res. (1987) 25 1081 1094 Crossref, Google Scholar
• Schrijver A. The Theory of Linear and Integer Programming (1986) (John Wiley, New York) Google Scholar
• Shapiro J. F. Mathematical Programming: Structures and Algorithms (1979) (John Wiley, New York) Google Scholar
• Stecke K. E. Formulation and solution of nonlinear integer production planning problems for flexible manufacturing systems. Management Sci. (1983) 29 273 288 Link, Google Scholar
• Tang C. S. , Denardo E. V. Models arising from a flexible manufacturing machine—Part I: Minimization of the number of tool switches. Opns. Res. (1988a) 36 776 777 Google Scholar
• Tang C. S. , Denardo E. V. Models arising from a flexible manufacturing machine—Part II: Minimization of the number of switching instants. Opns. Res. (1988b) 36 778 784 Link, Google Scholar
• van Laarhoven P. J. M. , Zijm W. H. M. Production preparation and numerical control in PCB assembly. (1990) (Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) . Memorandum M 90-09 Google Scholar