A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PLANT ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING USING A PSO APPROACH

Yuan-Jye Tseng, Jian-Yu Chen, Feng-Yi Huang

2009

Abstract

In a multi-plant collaborative manufacturing system in a global logistics chain, a product can be manufactured and assembled at different plants located at various locations. In this research, a decision support system for multi-plant assembly sequence planning is presented. The multi-plant assembly sequence planning model integrates two tasks, assembly sequence planning and plant assignment. In assembly sequence planning, the components and assembly operations are sequenced according to the operational constraints and precedence constraints to achieve assembly cost objectives. In plant assignment, the components and assembly operations are assigned to the suitable plants under the constraints of plant capabilities to achieve multi-plant cost objectives. A particle swarm optimization (PSO) solution approach is presented by encoding a particle using a position matrix defined by the numbers of components and plants. The PSO algorithm simultaneously performs assembly sequence planning and plant assignment with an objective of minimizing the total of assembly operational costs and multi-plant costs. The main contribution lies in the new multi-plant assembly sequence planning model and the new PSO solution method. The test results show that the presented method is feasible and efficient for solving the multi-plant assembly sequence planning problem. In this paper, an example product is tested and illustrated.

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in Harvard Style

Tseng Y., Chen J. and Huang F. (2009). A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PLANT ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING USING A PSO APPROACH . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-85-2, pages 124-129. DOI: 10.5220/0001968601240129


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Yuan-Jye Tseng and Jian-Yu Chen and Feng-Yi Huang},
title={A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PLANT ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING USING A PSO APPROACH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={124-129},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001968601240129},
isbn={978-989-8111-85-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PLANT ASSEMBLY SEQUENCE PLANNING USING A PSO APPROACH
SN - 978-989-8111-85-2
AU - Tseng Y.
AU - Chen J.
AU - Huang F.
PY - 2009
SP - 124
EP - 129
DO - 10.5220/0001968601240129