• DocumentCode
    1732422
  • Title

    Balancing production lines composed by series of workstations with parallel operations blocks

  • Author

    Dolgui, Alexandre ; Guschinsky, Nikolai ; Levin, Genrikh

  • Author_Institution
    SIMMO Center, Ecole des Mines, Saint Etienne, France
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    122
  • Lastpage
    127
  • Abstract
    A balancing problem for paced production lines with workstations in series and blocks of parallel operations at the workstations is considered. The problem is to choose blocks from a given set and allocate them to workstations in such a way that all the operations are assigned, the precedence and compatibility constraints are satisfied, and the line cost is minimal. A method for solving the problem is based on its transformation to a constrained shortest path problem.
  • Keywords
    assembling; directed graphs; mass production; parallel processing; workstations; assembly line balancing problem; balancing production lines; compatibility constraints; constrained shortest path problem; heuristics techniques; line cost; paced production lines; parallel operations blocks; precedence constraints; workstations; Automation; Costs; Informatics; Investments; Machining; Magnetic heads; Manufacturing industries; Mass production; Productivity; Workstations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Assembly and Task Planning, 2003. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7770-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISATP.2003.1217198
  • Filename
    1217198