A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Machine configuration and workload balancing for multi-product PCB assembly
Authors: Attila Tóth, Timo Knuutila, Olli S Nevalainen
Editors: Matjaž Gams, Rok Piltaver, Dunja Mladenić, Marko Grobelnik, Franc Novak, Bojan Blažica, Ciril Bohak, Luka Čehovin, Marjan Heričko, Urban Kordeš, Zala Kurinčič, Katarina Marjanovič, Toma Strle, Vladimir A Fomichov, Olga S Fomichova, Vladislav Rajkovič, Tanja Urbančič, Mojca Bernik, Andrej Brodnik
Publishing place: Ljubljana
Publication year: 2013
Book title : Proceedings of the 16th International Multiconference INFORMATION SOCIETY - IS 2013
Volume: A
First page : 573
Last page: 576
Web address : http://is.ijs.si/is/is2013/zborniki/Zbornik_A.pdf
Modular component placement machines of gantry-type are popular in PCB assembly manufacturing due to their great flexibility to the needs of different production plans. A two-step optimization method for the machine reconfiguration and workload balancing in the case of multiple PCB types is given in the present study. The proposed algorithm is iterative and applies integer programming for the workload balancing along with an evolutionary algorithm which performs the machine configuration.
