Scheduling for Cellular Manufacturing

Abstract. Alcatel-Lucent is a major player in the eld of telecommunications. One of the products it oers to network operators is wireless infrastructure such as base stations. Such equipment is delivered in cabinets. These cabinets are packed with various pieces of electronics: lters, ampliers, circuit packs, etc. The exact conguration of a cabinet is dependent upon the circumstances it is being placed in, and some 20 product groups can be distinguished. However, the variation in cabinets is large, even within one product group. For this reason, they are built to order. In order to improve cost, yield and delivery performance, lean manufacturing concepts were applied to change the layout of the factory to one based on cells. These cells focus on improving manufacturing through standardised work, limited changeovers between product groups and better utilisation of test equipment. A key component in the implementation of these improvements is a system which schedules the cells to sa...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CP
• Authors: Roman van der Krogt, James Little, Kenneth Pulliam, Sue Hanhilammi, Yue Jin
• Keywords: CP 2007, Delivery Performance, Lean Manufacturing Concepts, Product Groups, Programming Languages