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Petri Net-Based Heuristic Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing

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Petri Nets in Flexible and Agile Automation

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A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) can manufacture multiple types of products with relatively small lot sizes, using various resources such as robots and multi-purpose machines. While the increased flexibility of an FMS provides a greater number of choices of routings and resources, and allows greater productivity, it imposes a challenging problem of allocating the given resources to various processes for each product, and scheduling the activities effectively. This chapter presents a Petri net-based heuristic scheduling method for flexible manufacturing environments.

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  1. Precision Engineering and Mechatronics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon, 305-701, Korea

    Doo Yong Lee

  2. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, 12180-3590, USA

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Lee, D.Y., DiCesare, F. (1995). Petri Net-Based Heuristic Scheduling for Flexible Manufacturing. In: Zhou, M. (eds) Petri Nets in Flexible and Agile Automation. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 310. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2231-7_6

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