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Estimating the production time of a PCB assembly job without solving the optimised machine control

Frans Vainio, Tapio Pahikkala, Mika Johnsson, Olli S. Nevalainen, Timo Knuutila, Estimating the production time of a PCB assembly job without solving the optimised machine control. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 27 (2014)(4/2014), 1 –13, 2014.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0951192X.2014.902104

Abstract:

Production planning and control of the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes several decisions dealing with, for example, grouping of PCB jobs, allocation of PCB batches to machine lines, sequencing of batches and load balancing of lines. The production time of a PCB job for a given placement machine is a key factor in this context and it must be quickly and accurately estimated, possibly millions of times in a single planning task, to avoid erroneous decisions. The commonly used nominal tact time-based estimators are very rough and the machine simulators too slow. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to give better machine-specific estimators that avoid the construction the actual machine control program.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jVaPaJoNeKn14b,
  title = {Estimating the production time of a PCB assembly job without solving the optimised machine control},
  author = {Vainio, Frans and Pahikkala, Tapio and Johnsson, Mika and Nevalainen, Olli S. and Knuutila, Timo},
  journal = {International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing },
  volume = {27 (2014)},
  number = {4/2014},
  publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
  pages = {1 –13},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {placement machine, PCB assembly, nozzle assignment,bottleneck},
}

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