Decision support requirements in flexible manufacturing

Suri, Rajan; Whitney, Cynthia Kolb

doi:10.1016/0278-6125(84)90022-0

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“…Job scheduling, inventory planning, and problem solving (disturbance control) have been among the supervisory control responsibilities commonly assigned to human operators in AMS (Suri and Whitney, 1984;Ammons et al, 1988). The capabilities of humans and computers in AMS planning/scheduling tasks are presented in Table 5 ( Nakamura and Salvendy, 1994).…”

Section: Human Supervisory Controlmentioning

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The effects of multitasking on quality inspection in advanced manufacturing systems

Pesante

Williges

Woldstad

2001

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Technological and strategic developments have changed the role of human operators in the manufacturing environment. The highly specialized work force of the low-tech manufacturing system has evolved into the multi-functional work force of the high-tech manufacturing system. Among the multiple tasks that an operator is expected to conduct in advanced manufacturing systems (AMS) are job scheduling, inventory planning, machine set-up, problem solving, and quality inspection.The quality inspection task in AMS consists of a search component, frequently conducted by a machine, and a decision making component conducted by the operator.This quality inspection system is often referred to as a hybrid inspection system (HIS). It has been demonstrated that in general the performance of HIS is better than that of pure human or pure automated inspection systems. This research investigated the effects of different types of defects (presented at the same time in the inspected parts), multitasking (concurrently conducting independent tasks), and their interaction on the operator's performance in the quality inspection task (with a memorized quality criteria) in an AMS.The results indicate that the performance of the operator in the quality inspection task while multitasking in an AMS will be determined not only by the variety of defects that can be present in the inspected parts, but also by the mental processing resources required to meet the demand imposed by the multiple independent tasks and the memorized quality criteria. The best performance will be obtained when the additional tasks' load minimizes the monotony of the quality inspection task without interfering with the processing resources needed for the memorized quality criteria.iii Dedicated to the memory of my father, José Pesante iv

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Section: Human Supervisory Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effects of multitasking on quality inspection in advanced manufacturing systems

Pesante

Williges

Woldstad

2001

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…1984) enabled efficient solution of systems with machine-groups, and has been incorporated in at least one on-line decision support system for an FMS (Suri and Whitney, 1984). Another recent extension, called PMVA (Shalev-Oren, et al, 1984) allows a wide variety of operational features to be modelled.…”

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“…Graves, 1982: Stecke, 1983Whitney and Suri, 1984). However, the constraints involved in the mathematical programming problem formulations can be very complex.…”

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A control theorist's perspective on recent trends in manufacturing systems

Gershwin

Hildebrant

Suri

et al. 1984

The 23rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

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“…Furthermore, including these considerations at the equipment level, e.g. in process planning, provides an effective decision-making tool for short-term operational decisions for FMSs as discussed by Suri and Whitney [2].…”

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