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Jaber Eid Abu Qudeiri

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

كلية الهندسة
Engineering Building, Advanced Manufacturing Institute
publication
Journal Article
2016

On multistage approach for flexible routing in flexible manufacturing systems

Khadra, Jaber E Abu Qudeiri , Usama Umer , Mustufa H Abidi1 , Abdulrahman M Al-Ahmari, Fayiz Abu . 2016

Optimizing flexible routing in flexible manufacturing systems is one of the aspects that increase the efficiency of flexible
manufacturing systems especially in dynamic environment systems. This article presents a multistage approach to solve
flexible routing problem in flexible manufacturing systems. Multistage approach includes three stages; the first stage is a
production simulation system to find the fitness of the flexible manufacturing systems corresponding to different products’
routes’ groups. The second stage proposes an artificial neural network approach to predict the products’ routes’
group in flexible manufacturing systems. The last stage combines genetic algorithms and artificial neural network to optimize
proper routes for all product types in flexible manufacturing systems. Multistage approach proposed in this study
aims to reduce the computational time required to obtain and optimize the flexible routes in flexible manufacturing systems.
The results of this study show that the artificial neural network can be used efficiently to predict the flexible
routes in flexible manufacturing systems and it reduces the computational time for routes’ optimization required with
production simulation system. This characteristic improves the flexibility of flexible manufacturing systems since it can
be adapted frequently against any change in production ratios.

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publications

Optimizing flexible routing in flexible manufacturing systems is one of the aspects that increase the efficiency of flexible
manufacturing systems especially in dynamic environment systems.…

by Jaber E Abu Qudeiri , Usama Umer , Mustufa H Abidi1 , Abdulrahman M Al-Ahmari, Fayiz Abu Khadra
2016
publications

A control methodology based on a nonlinear control algorithm and optimization technique is presented in this paper. A controller called “the robust integral of the sign of the error” (in short,…

by Fayiz Abu Khadra, Jaber Abu Qudeiri, Mohammed Alkahtani
2016
publications

A control methodology based on a nonlinear control algorithm and optimization technique is presented in this paper. A controller
called “the robust integral of the sign of the error” (in…