Cyclic scheduling of a robotic flexible cell with load lock and swap

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1885-1891

  Jolai, Fariborz ^a   Foumani, Mehdi ^a   Tavakoli Moghadam, Reza ^b   Fattahi, Parviz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Automated manufacturing; Cyclic scheduling; Flexibility; Load lock; Robotic cell; Swap

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING; CYCLIC SCHEDULING; FLEXIBILITY; ROBOTIC CELL; SWAP;

ROBOTS; SCHEDULING;

MARKING MACHINES;

EID: 84870946514     PISSN: 09565515     EISSN: 15728145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10845-011-0505-9     Document Type: Article

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