MULTI-STAGE DECISION BASED APPROACH FOR BALANCING BI-OBJECTIVE U-SHAPED ASSEMBLY LINES WITH ALTERNATIVE SUBASSEMBLY GRAPHS

Seren Ozmehmet Tasan

2012

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to propose an efficient way to balance the u-shaped assembly lines with alternative subassembly graphs while minimizing the number of stations and maximizing the line efficiency. U-shaped assembly line balancing models with alternative subassembly graphs (uALB/sb) under consideration contains two kinds of special issues, i.e. the selection of a suitable subassembly graph among alternatives and the balancing according to the operational precedence constrained among the tasks in the selected subassembly graph. To deal with the multiple objectives and the special issues, first we designed this uALB/sb as a network problem and then proposed a multi-stage decision based genetic algorithm (mdGA). Additionally, in order to improve the performance of mdGA, we use fuzzy logic controller for fine-tuning of genetic parameters. Finally, uALB/sb problem has been solved using the proposed solution approach to highlight the applicability and performance of the proposed solution approach.

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Ozmehmet Tasan S. (2012). MULTI-STAGE DECISION BASED APPROACH FOR BALANCING BI-OBJECTIVE U-SHAPED ASSEMBLY LINES WITH ALTERNATIVE SUBASSEMBLY GRAPHS . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 334-342. DOI: 10.5220/0003942903340342


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@conference{peccs12,
author={Seren Ozmehmet Tasan},
title={MULTI-STAGE DECISION BASED APPROACH FOR BALANCING BI-OBJECTIVE U-SHAPED ASSEMBLY LINES WITH ALTERNATIVE SUBASSEMBLY GRAPHS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={334-342},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003942903340342},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - MULTI-STAGE DECISION BASED APPROACH FOR BALANCING BI-OBJECTIVE U-SHAPED ASSEMBLY LINES WITH ALTERNATIVE SUBASSEMBLY GRAPHS
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Ozmehmet Tasan S.
PY - 2012
SP - 334
EP - 342
DO - 10.5220/0003942903340342