Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies

Traditionally, tolerance allocation and scheduling have been dealt with separately in the literature. The aim of tolerance allocation is to minimize the tolerance cost. When scheduling the sequence of product operations, the goal is to minimize the makespan, mean flow time, machine idle time, and ma...

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Main Authors: Geetha, K., Ravindran, D., Kumar, M., Islam, Mohammad Nazrul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17900
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Ravindran, D.
Kumar, M.
Islam, Mohammad Nazrul
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description Traditionally, tolerance allocation and scheduling have been dealt with separately in the literature. The aim of tolerance allocation is to minimize the tolerance cost. When scheduling the sequence of product operations, the goal is to minimize the makespan, mean flow time, machine idle time, and machine idle time cost. Calculations of manufacturing costs derived separately using tolerance allocation and scheduling separately will not be accurate. Hence, in this work, component tolerance was allocated by minimizing both the manufacturing cost (sum of the tolerance and quality loss cost) and the machine idle time cost, considering the product sequence. A genetic algorithm (GA) was developed for allocating the tolerance of the components and determining the best product sequence of the scheduling. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the results are compared with those obtained with existing wheel mounting assembly discussed in the literature.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-179002017-09-13T15:35:34Z Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies Geetha, K. Ravindran, D. Kumar, M. Islam, Mohammad Nazrul Traditionally, tolerance allocation and scheduling have been dealt with separately in the literature. The aim of tolerance allocation is to minimize the tolerance cost. When scheduling the sequence of product operations, the goal is to minimize the makespan, mean flow time, machine idle time, and machine idle time cost. Calculations of manufacturing costs derived separately using tolerance allocation and scheduling separately will not be accurate. Hence, in this work, component tolerance was allocated by minimizing both the manufacturing cost (sum of the tolerance and quality loss cost) and the machine idle time cost, considering the product sequence. A genetic algorithm (GA) was developed for allocating the tolerance of the components and determining the best product sequence of the scheduling. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, the results are compared with those obtained with existing wheel mounting assembly discussed in the literature. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17900 10.1016/j.rcim.2015.03.001 Elsevier Ltd fulltext
spellingShingle Geetha, K.
Ravindran, D.
Kumar, M.
Islam, Mohammad Nazrul
Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
title Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
title_full Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
title_fullStr Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
title_full_unstemmed Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
title_short Concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
title_sort concurrent tolerance allocation and scheduling for complex assemblies
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17900