---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:46:12 -0500 From: SARA RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ srodriguez090444@gmail.com To: PISIS-L PISIS-L@lists.uanl.mx Subject: [PISIS-L] Conferencia Sequencing and Scheduling in Robotic Cells

El Posgrado en Ingenier�a de Sistemas les hace una atenta invitaci�n a que asistan a la conferencia: *Sequencing and scheduling in robotics cells, *que se impartir� dentro del marco de conferencias de la Semana Cultural de Aniversario FIME 2011.

Lugar: Auditorio Ra�l Quintero Flores Fecha: Martes 18 Hora: 11:45am

Por:

*Chelliah Sriskandarajah*

Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management

Naveen Jindal School of Management

University of Texas at Dallas, USA

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*ABSTRACT*

In this talk, I will discuss novel operations problems that I have encountered during my interaction with a Dallas-based manufacturer of robotic cells for the semiconductor industry. The throughput of a cell (i.e., the number of finished parts produced per unit time) critically depends on the sequence of actions of the robot(s). Over the past several years, I have developed theories and concepts to devise efficient optimization algorithms for such sequencing problems for a variety of robotic cells. These algorithms, which are typically programmed in the control mechanism of the cell, have significantly improved productivity in practical implementations.

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*BIO-CHELLIAH SRISKANDARAJAH*

Chelliah Sriskandarajah is a professor of Operations Management and holds the Ashbel Smith Chair at the School of Management of the University of Texas at Dallas. He has a Ph.D degree from the Higher National School of Electrical Engineering of the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France) in the field of Production and Operations Research. Prof. Sriskandarajah's research interests lie in the general area of production planning and scheduling, supply chain management, logistics, and performance evaluation of production/service systems. He has published over 100 scholarly articles in leading international journals. Over the years, his research has been supported by a number of sponsors including National Science Foundation (USA), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), Manufacturing Research Cooperation of Ontario (Canada) and NATO. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of POMS, and is a member of INFORMS, POMS, IIE, IEEE and APICS. He serves as the Associate Executive Director of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) since March 2004.

-- Sara Ver�nica Rodr�guez S�nchez, Graduate Program in Systems Engineering, FIME-UANL, AP-111-F, Cd. Universitaria San Nicol�s de los Garza, NL 66450, M�xico Tel. (0052) 8183294020 ext.1610 Mobil. (0052) 8181378515 sara@yalma.fime.uanl.mx srodriguez090444@gmail.com http://yalma.fime.uanl.mx/~sara/

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