Comparison and evaluation of job selection dispatching rules for integrated scheduling of multi-load automatic guided vehicles serving in variable sized flexible manufacturing system layouts: A simulation study

This paper compares and evaluates the performance of five different conventional job selection dis-patching rules for scheduling of multi-load automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) serving for material handling operations in variable sized flexible manufacturing system (FMS) layout. Four sizes of FMS lay...

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Main Authors: S. Angra, A. K. Chanda, V. K. Chawla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2018-04-01
Series:Management Science Letters
Subjects:
FMS
Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol8/msl_2018_10.pdf