A Hierarchical Approach to Design, Planning, and Control Problems in Electronic Circuit Card Manufacturing

The competitive nature of the electronic industry has greatly intensified in recent years. The capital investment in this segment of industry constitutes a large portion of current industrial investments. Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) are an important module of electronic parts, and consequently, highly automated manufacturing systems have been designed to produce the required circuit cards at the desired volume. The design, planning, scheduling, and control problems which arise in this environment are challenging and multi-faceted.

[1]  We-Min Chow.  Design for Line Flexibility , 1986 .

[2]  Christopher S. Tang,et al.  Models Arising from a Flexible Manufacturing Machine, Part II: Minimization of the Number of Switching Instants , 1988, Oper. Res..

[3]  Vangelis F. Magirou.  The Efficient Drilling of Printed Circuit Boards , 1986 .

[4]  Christopher S. Tang,et al.  Models Arising from a Flexible Manufacturing Machine, Part I: Minimization of the Number of Tool Switches , 1988, Oper. Res..

[5]  Leon F. McGinnis,et al.  Soft configuration in automated insertion , 1986, Proceedings. 1986 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

[6]  J. Soukup.  Circuit layout , 1981, Proceedings of the IEEE.

[7]  Zvi Drezner,et al.  On Optimizing Bin Picking and Insertion Plans for Assembly Robots , 1984 .

[8]  David S. Johnson,et al.  Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness , 1978 .

[9]  Awi Federgruen,et al.  The Greedy Procedure for Resource Allocation Problems: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimality , 1986, Oper. Res..

[10]  Joseph El Gomayel,et al.  GROUP TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVITY , 1986 .

[11]  Leon F. McGinnis,et al.  Routing Printed Circuit Cards Through an Assembly Cell , 1991, Oper. Res..

[12]  O. Nevalainen,et al.  Optimization of the movements of a component placement machine , 1989 .

[13]  Michael O. Ball,et al.  Sequencing of Insertions in Printed Circuit Board Assembly , 1988, Oper. Res..

[14]  Dennis Johnson,et al.  Component Allocation and Partitioning for a Dual Delivery Placement Machine , 1988, Oper. Res..

[15]  Robert J. Wittrock,et al.  An Adaptable Scheduling Algorithm for Flexible Flow Lines , 1988, Oper. Res..

[16]  Ernest S. Kuh,et al.  VLSI circuit layout : theory and design , 1985 .

[17]  Reza H. Ahmadi,et al.  The Line Segmentation Problem , 1991, Oper. Res..

[18]  Robert J. Wittrock,et al.  Scheduling Algorithms for Flexible Flow Lines , 1985, IBM J. Res. Dev..

[19]  Reza H. Ahmadi,et al.  An Operation Partitioning Problem for Automated Assembly System Design , 1991, Oper. Res..

[20]  Panagiotis Kouvelis,et al.  Staging Problem of a Dual Delivery Pick-and-Place Machine in Printed Circuit Card Assembly , 1994, Oper. Res..

[21]  Javad H. Ahmadi,et al.  Integrated production scheduling in large-scale flexible electronic parts manufacturing , 1988 .

[22]  J. Talavage,et al.  Production decision support system for computerized manufacturing systems , 1982 .