The book familiarizes the reader with the flexible assembly systems
planning and scheduling issues and various operations research modelling
and solution approaches. Some of the many topic highlights presented
are the overall structure and components of a
flexible assembly system, bi-objective integer programming models and
algorithms for machine loading, assembly routing, and assembly plan
selection, and fast combinatorial heuristics for
scheduling flexible assembly lines with limited intermediate
buffers. Also the book deals with just-in-time scheduling of flexible
assembly lines, and dynamic dispatching algorithms for simultaneous
scheduling of assembly stations and
automated guided vehicles.