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Operations Research & Management Science
Sonja Otten
Summary: We analyze a supply chain with multiple production-inventory systems connected by a common supplier. The customer demand follows a Poisson process and is lost if local inventory is depleted. We propose a continuous review base stock policy to control the local inventories and achieve load balancing. Our findings demonstrate that the stationary distribution has a product form, allowing for explicit solutions or recursive algorithms for the marginal distributions of the production and inventory-replenishment subsystems.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Engineering, Manufacturing
Ariff Nijay Ramli, Mohd Fadzil Faisae Ab Rashid
Summary: This paper reviews the research progress on Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) with energy consideration from 2012 to 2020, highlighting the potential to reduce energy utilization. Future research will focus on human-oriented factors and efficient algorithm introduction to tackle the increasingly complex ALB problems.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART B-JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANUFACTURE
(2022)
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Nicolas P. Campana, Manuel Iori, Mayron Cesar O. Moreira
Summary: This study proposes new algorithms for the assembly line balancing problem with hierarchical worker assignment, aiming to minimize total cost while satisfying cycle time and precedence constraints. The effectiveness of the algorithms is demonstrated through extensive computational experiments on benchmark instances.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Zixiang Li, Mukund Nilakantan Janardhanan, Humyun Fuad Rahman
Summary: An enhanced beam search heuristic algorithm is developed to solve U-shaped assembly line balancing problems, which outperforms state-of-the-art methods by achieving new optimal solutions for both types. The algorithm utilizes multiple optimization techniques to improve performance.
ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION
(2021)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Bara Kim, Jeongsim Kim, Sungji Lee
Summary: In this study, we analyze a production-inventory queueing system and investigate customers' equilibrium strategies, profit maximization, and social welfare maximization. We also develop a method for computing equilibrium strategies and calculate the maximum profit rate and maximum social benefit rate. Additionally, we compare the profit-maximizing solution with the welfare-maximizing solution through numerical experiments.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ahmad Mumani, Osama Abu-Farsakh, Amer Momani, Sinan Obaidat
Summary: This study investigates the performance of common heuristics in solving the single-model assembly line balancing problem. A dataset of randomly generated problems is used to assess the performance, and an experiment is conducted to analyze the effects of various operating factors. The results show that certain heuristics can optimize multiple performance metrics, and time variability is identified as a critical factor influencing the performance. Process designers are recommended to consider the impact of operating factors and use heuristics that can optimize multiple performance measures.
ARABIAN JOURNAL FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Shijin Wang, Hanyu Zhang, Feng Chu, Li Yu
Summary: This paper addresses the problem of clothes inventory balancing scheduling among branch stores in the fast-fashion apparel industry. A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is formulated and a relax-and-fix (R&F) method is developed to solve this problem. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated through extensive computational experiments, showing that it can provide near-optimal solutions with less computation time.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Gabi Hanukov
Summary: Performing a part of the service without the customer's presence is increasingly common in many real-life service systems. This creates a two-phase service system with an opening service (OS) provided only when the customer is present, and a complementary service (CS) conducted without the customer. However, some customers prefer to be present for the entire service, while others are willing to leave when their presence is not needed. By postponing the CS and handling the OS when the system is empty, the server's idle time is efficiently used, reducing customers' mean sojourn time. This novel queueing-inventory system is analyzed using matrix geometric methods.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Nha-Nghi de la Cruz, Hans Daduna
Summary: This paper investigates a base stock policy for inventory control in a single-item production-inventory system and models the system as a closed Gordon-Newell network. By analyzing the queue length behavior of a two node system, the convexity of the mean queue length in relation to the number of customers is established, leading to the convexity of a standard cost function.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Daniele Giovanni Gioia, Stefan Minner
Summary: The progress of digitization has made the integration of online and offline sales channels increasingly necessary for retailers. In this study, we propose a dynamic model to jointly optimize allocation and replenishment policies for perishable goods in multi-echelon networks.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Sonja Otten, Hans Daduna
Summary: In this study, we investigate a production-inventory system that involves two customer classes with different priorities. These customers are admitted to the system based on a flexible admission control scheme. The inventory management follows a base stock policy, and any arriving demand that results in depleted inventory is considered as lost sales. By analyzing the global balance equations of the associated Markov process, we derive structural properties of the steady state distribution, which provide insights into the equilibrium behavior of the system. We also establish a sufficient condition for ergodicity using the Foster-Lyapunov stability criterion, and show its necessity for a special case.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xuesong Zhang, Hao Zhou, Chenxi Fu, Menghan Mi, Changshu Zhan, Duc Truong Pham, Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard
Summary: End-of-life (EOL) products are receiving increasing attention due to the decline in environmental resources and population growth. Disassembly is a crucial step in the reuse of EOL products, but it is highly uncertain and may not produce expected outcomes. Uncertainty disassembly takes into account changes in parts caused by product use, and can better coordinate tasks and match the remanufacturing process.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Umay Uzunoglu Kocer, Serife Ozkar
Summary: This study examines a queueing-inventory system with a server subject to breakdowns. Two types of customers arrive in the system based on Poisson processes. There is a single server with exponential service time. However, service may be randomly interrupted due to breakdowns. After recovery, priority customers are served first. The system is modeled as a level-dependent quasi-birth-death process (LDQBD), and stationary conditions and steady-state probabilities are calculated. A comprehensive numerical study is conducted to analyze the sensitivity of performance measures to system parameter changes and to evaluate the optimal inventory policy based on cost functions.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Gabi Hanukov
Summary: This article investigates a service system in which customers can leave the service station and enter orbit during the processing of their order. The system is modeled and analyzed using the matrix geometric method, and the optimal orbiting time, optimal RS storage capacity, and optimal preservation technology investment are calculated.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Zixiang Li, Ibrahim Kucukkoc, Qiuhua Tang
Summary: This study introduces two methods to address the type II assembly line balancing problem: the exact method IBBRe and the heuristic method IBSe. The results show that both methods outperform the current state-of-the-art iterative beam search and update the upper bounds for long-standing unresolved cases.
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2021)