A New Approach For Maximizing The Output Rate In Robotic Manufacturing Cells

This paper deals with robot move sequencing and scheduling in two and three machine robotic cells. The machines in the cell are CNC and because of having flexibility feature, they can perform all necessary operations to manufacture parts. The manufactured parts is identical. In the most past researches in this field, flowshop layout has been considered. In this paper we ignore this layout, so a new cycle for robot move sequences is considered. Also the machine layout differs with past studies and the robot has rotational move. We determine the cycle time of proposed cycle, then it is proved that proposed cycle time for two and three machine robotic cell is smaller than existing feasible cycle time that leads to maximize output rate in that cells.