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Flexible u-shaped assembly line design problem
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2013
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Oğan, Ayşe Dilek
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This study considers a U-shaped assembly line where the operators are allowed to work on both legs of the U-shaped line. We assume that the number of workstations and the cycle time are fixed. Each task uses a specified set of equipments where each type of equipment has a specified cost. The problem is to assign the tasks together with their equipments to the workstations so as to minimize the total equipment cost. We propose a branch and bound algorithm that uses efficient precedence relations and lower bounds. We find that the algorithm is able to solve moderate size problem instances with up to 21 tasks-10 workstations and 30 tasks-8 workstations in reasonable time.
Subject Keywords
Assembly-line methods.
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Production engineering.
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Work environment.
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Cost effectiveness.
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Costs, Industrial.
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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12616029/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22697
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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis