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Computer-Aided Management Information Systems, Production Control Systems

Controlling automation level in robot production. Perfect and stochastic schemes

N. I. Aristova

Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We propose a mathematical formalism with which we compare three organization schemes for discrete production: manual, with robots produced outside a facility, and with robots produced on the same facility (self-replication). For each of the three schemes, we consider production conditions that presume perfect production (the probability of correctly performing a technological operation equals 1) and stochastic production (all technological operations during production are correctly performed with probability less than one). We solve the problem of finding the optimal level of automation for this production that would minimize human intervention in the production process for various schemes of production. We show that including a feedback with respect to the ready product (self-replication) may lead to an additional decrease in production cost.

Presented by the member of Editorial Board: L. B. Rapoport

Received: 08.04.2013

 English version: Automation and Remote Control, 2014, 75:9, 1637–1645

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