An experimental study of human decision-making in computer-based scheduling of flexible manufacturing system |
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Authors: | NOBUTO NAKAMURA GAVRIEL SALVENDY |
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Affiliation: | School of Industrial Engineering , Purdue University , West Lafayette, IN, 47907, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | This paper describes a study which explores human decision-making abilities in scheduling and dispatching of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) An experiment is described, using an FMS, in which subjects make scheduling and dispatching decisions using a real-time interactive computer-simulation based system. The experimental results demonstrate that human decision-making is superior to general dispatching rules. An explanation of these results and an analysis of subjects' behaviour is presented in the light of information obtained from verbal protocol data |
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