The Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory is a constituent laboratory of the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland.
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One of the challenges that are faced by manufacturing organizations is equipment selection. The problem explored here is to minimize the expected cycle time of jobs through a production line by choosing the appropriate number of tools of various types for each workstation in the line. Due to the stochastic nature of the objective function, discrete-event simulation is used to evaluate the cycle time. The project implements a set of algorithms and compares their performance on a large data set of problem instances.
Use the following link to access the Microsoft Excel file that contains data sets with the problem instances: datasets.xls (300KB).
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