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APL-based flexibility analysis of manufacturing grid

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With the characteristics of diversity, randomness, concurrency and decomposability, tasks in manufacturing field are very complicated, and so manufacturing grid (MG) should have considerable flexibility to deal with this problem. With the definition of node and arc, MG structure is converted into a small-world network. Given construction cost constraint, the problem of shortest task waiting time is transformed into the constrained optimization problem, and a corresponding flexibility analysis model based on average path length (APL) is proposed, and the premise of arc-length and node-distance are defined. The results of application example show that the analysis model is effective.

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  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanical Automation and Robotics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200072, P. R. China

    Li-lan Liu  (刘丽兰), Xue-hua Sun  (孙雪华), Hong-xia Cai  (察红霞) & Jian-fei Chai  (柴建飞)

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  1. Li-lan Liu  (刘丽兰)
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Correspondence to Li-lan Liu  (刘丽兰).

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Communicated by YU Ying-jie

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.50805089), and the Science Foundation of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Grant Nos.08DZ1123402, 08DZ1124502)

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Liu, Ll., Sun, Xh., Cai, Hx. et al. APL-based flexibility analysis of manufacturing grid. J. Shanghai Univ.(Engl. Ed.) 13, 352–355 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11741-009-0503-3

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