Heuristics for assembly sequencing and relative magazine assignment for robotic assembly

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 2-4, 1998, Pages 423-431

  Wang, Collin ^a   Ho, Li Shing ^a   Cannon, David J ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; FACTORY AUTOMATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

ASSEMBLY SEQUENCING; CARTESIAN ROBOTS; INSERTION ORDERS; PICK-AND-PLACE LOCATIONS DYNAMIC ALLOCATION; RELATIVE MAGAZINE ASSIGNMENT METHOD;

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0032043028     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(97)00140-x     Document Type: Article

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