Study on the Reconfiguration of Dual Resource Cellular Manufacturing System

ABSTRACT

With the change of market environment, manufacturing system must respond to changes of the outside world with the fastest speed. After detailed analysis of the impact of human resource on cellular manufacturing system, this paper purposes an equipment reconfiguration model to achieve minimum number of equipment reconfiguration times and material handling time, and builds a human resource work task reschedule model to achieve the maximum of total operation skill level and similarity of equipment operation content at two neighboring periods and minimum of uneven distribution of workers’ technical level. At the end, we put forward a numerical example to specifically illustrate reconfiguration models.

Keywords:

Cellular manufacturing system, Equipment resource, Human resource, Mathematical model, Reconfiguration, Technical level.