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International Journal of Production Research Volume 30, 1992 - Issue 9
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A heuristic procedure for loading problems in flexible manufacturing systems

S. K. MUKHOPADHYAY National Institute for Industrial Engineering (previously the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering), Vihar Lake, Bombay, 400087, India
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SANJAY MIDHA National Institute for Industrial Engineering (previously the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering), Vihar Lake, Bombay, 400087, India
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V. MURLI KRISHNA National Institute for Industrial Engineering (previously the National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering), Vihar Lake, Bombay, 400087, India
Pages 2213-2228 | Received 01 Jan 1992, Published online: 07 May 2007
 
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Abstract

The loading problem in a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is viewed as selecting a subset of jobs from a job pool and allocating the jobs among machines. In this paper a heuristic solution to the loading problem has been suggested by developing the concept of essentiality ratio for the objective of minimizing the system unbalance and thereby maximizing the throughput. The proposed heuristic is tested on ten problems and the results show that the algorithm developed is very reliable and efficient.

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