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An experimental design comparison of four heuristic approaches for batching jobs in printed circuit board assembly.
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Academy of Information and Management SciencesJournal
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July 1, 2007
- Author:
- Williams, Susan K.; Magazine, Michael J.
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ABSTRACT
The goal of the printed circuit board (PCB) job-batching problem is to minimize the total manufacturing time required to process a set of printed circuit board jobs on a pick-and-place machine. Specifically, to determine which jobs should be processed with the same setup so that the total number of setups is reduced without increasing the required processing time such that the reduction in setup time is offset. Since PCB manufacturers assemble thousands to millions of boards each year, even modest time savings per job are useful.
In this paper, we reports the results of an experiment designed to compare four heuristic approaches to solve the PCB job-batching ...