Monotonicity in Optimal Policy of a Flexible Manufacturing Cell Feeding Several Production Lines

TADAYOSHI SHIOYAMA Department of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606, Japan

KATSUHISA OHNO Department of Systems Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466, Japan

HIROSHI KISE Department of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606, Japan

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This paper deals with an optimal part selection problem tominimize the expected cost, in an automated manufacturing system in which a flexible manufacturing cell produces different parts for several production lines. The optimal control problem is formulated as an undiscounted semi-Markov decision process. Properties of the optimal policy are analyzed. Moreover, sufficiency conditions are derived for the optimal policy to be of control iimit type.

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