Stochastic two-sided U-type assembly line balancing: a genetic algorithm approach

DELİCE Y., KIZILKAYA AYDOĞAN E., ÖZCAN U.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH, cilt.54, sa.11, ss.3429-3451, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 54 Sayı: 11
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00207543.2016.1140918
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.3429-3451
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: two-sided assembly lines, U-type assembly lines, assembly line balancing, stochastic, genetic algorithm, MODEL, OPTIMIZATION, PROGRAM
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this paper, a novel stochastic two-sided U-type assembly line balancing (STUALB) procedure, an algorithm based on the genetic algorithm and a heuristic priority rule-based procedure to solve STUALB problem are proposed. With this new proposed assembly line design, all advantages of both two-sided assembly lines and U-type assembly lines are combined. Due to the variability of the real-life conditions, stochastic task times are also considered in the study. The proposed approach aims to minimise the number of positions (i.e. the U-type assembly line length) as the primary objective and to minimise the number of stations (i.e. the number of operators) as a secondary objective for a given cycle time. An example problem is solved to illustrate the proposed approach. In order to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, test problems taken from the literature are used. The experimental results show that the proposed approach performs well.