Balancing of mixed-model two-sided assembly lines

ÖZCAN U., TOKLU B.

COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, cilt.57, sa.1, ss.217-227, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 57 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.cie.2008.11.012
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTERS & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.217-227
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Two-sided assembly line balancing, Mixed-model production, Mathematical model, Simulated annealing, GENETIC ALGORITHM, OPTIMIZATION, FORMULATION
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper presents a new mathematical model and a simulated annealing algorithm for the mixed-model two-sided assembly line balancing problem. The proposed mathematical model minimizes the number of mated-stations (i.e., the line length) as the primary objective and minimizes the number of stations (i.e., the number of operators) as a secondary objective for a given cycle time. In the proposed simulated annealing algorithm, two performance criteria are considered simultaneously: maximizing the weighted line efficiency and minimizing the weighted smoothness index. The proposed approach is illustrated with an example problem, and its performance is tested on a set of test problems. The experimental results show that the proposed approach performs well. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.