Energy reduction in a pallet-constrained flow shop through on-off control of idle machines

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-56

  Mashaei, Maziar ^a,b   Lennartson, Bengt ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b FlexLink AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Energy model; flow shop plant; heuristic algorithm; optimization; pallet system

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP; COMPUTATION TIME; CONTROL POLICY; CONTROL STRATEGIES; ENERGY MODEL; ENERGY MONITOR; ENERGY REDUCTION; FLOW-SHOPS; GREEN MANUFACTURING; HEURISTIC APPROACH; INDUSTRIAL SIZE; MIXED INTEGER; NONLINEAR MINIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ON-OFF CONTROL; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; PALLET SYSTEMS; TIME COMPLEXITY;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MACHINE SHOP PRACTICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

PALLETS;

EID: 84871945269     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2012.2225426     Document Type: Article

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