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Increasing Production Efficiency by Grouping PCB Assembly Jobs

Mika Johnsson, Timo Knuutila, Mika Hirvikorpi, Olli Nevalainen, Increasing Production Efficiency by Grouping PCB Assembly Jobs. TUCS Technical Reports 529, Turku Centre for Computer Science, 2003.

Abstract:

Ordering of batches of printed circuit boards (PCB) has significant impact to the efficiency of electronic component assembly processes. Through job grouping we aim to minimize the setup time between batches. PCB groups are formed so that each job group can be handled with one component setup. In the job grouping problem we seek for a set of groups with minimal cardinality. This paper is concerned with different variants of the job grouping problems. These variants are results of the different kinds of machine organizations used in manufacturing systems. The complexity and solution techniques of the job grouping problems are discussed briefly.

BibTeX entry:

@TECHREPORT{tJoKnHiNe03a,
  title = {Increasing Production Efficiency by Grouping PCB Assembly Jobs},
  author = {Johnsson, Mika and Knuutila, Timo and Hirvikorpi, Mika and Nevalainen, Olli},
  number = {529},
  series = {TUCS Technical Reports},
  publisher = {Turku Centre for Computer Science},
  year = {2003},
  keywords = {Printed circuit board, component assembly, electronics manufacturing, surface mounted components, flexible machines},
  ISBN = {952-12-1167-9},
}

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