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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Volume 52, Issue 24, Pages 7529-7548Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.944280
Keywords
mixed-model U-line; balancing and sequencing; work overload time; simulated annealing; stochastic
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- National Science and Technology Support Program [2012BAF15G01]
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A mixed-model assembly U-line is a flexible production system capable of manufacturing a variety of similar models, and it has become popular as an important component of the just-in-time production system. However, it poses new challenges for the optimal design of assembly lines because both the task assignment and the production sequence affect the workload variance among workstations. As a consequence, this paper addresses the line balancing problem and the model sequencing problem jointly and proposes a 0-1 stochastic programming model. In this model, task times are assumed to be stochastic variables independently distributed with normal distributions and the objective is to minimise the expectation of work overload time for a given combination of cycle time and number of workstations. To solve the problem, a simulated annealing-based algorithm is developed, which can also be used to minimise the absolute deviation of workloads in a deterministic environment. The experimental results for a set of benchmark problems show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the existing algorithms in terms of solution quality and running time.
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