The task of balancing of assembly lines is well-known in mass production system but this problem is NP-hard even for the simple straight line. Therefore, utilizing heuristic methods for these problems is totally unquestionable. Furthermore, in line with balancing problems, heuristic methods are the foundation of the metaheuristic methods, thus it seems to be necessary to use more efficient heur...

For solving the key technical challenge and problem in the heterogeneous components assembly and realizing the industrialization production of software products, and to use the producing system and mode of the modern manufacturing industry for reference, a new industrialized PL-ISEE (product line based integrated software engineering environment) model is firstly proposed. And then, through the...

Growing interests from customers in customised products and increasing competitions among peers necessitate companies to configure their manufacturing systems more effectively than ever before. We propose a new assembly line system configuration for companies that need intelligent solutions to satisfy customised demands on time with existing resources. A mixed-model parallel two-sided assembly ...

In this paper, product parts and machine agents are proposed for the configuration of an autonomous flexible assembly system. Product parts are divided into two types. One is the main part that is a base of the assembled product and the other is for sub parts that are installed on the main part. These parts and assembly machines are implemented as software agents in a virtual assembly productio...

In this paper we present a new feature modeling technique. This work was motivated by the fact that although for over two decades feature modeling techniques are used in software research for domain analysis and modeling of Software Product Lines, it has not found its way to the industry. Feature Assembly modeling overcomes some of the limitations of the current feature modeling techniques. We ...

In practice, vagueness and impreciseness of the goals in multi-objective mixed model assembly line make the decisionmaking a complex task. To limit the influences of the decision makers’ incomplete knowledge about the problem and help them to concentrate better on evaluating a conceived solution, a novel interactive fuzzy goal programming (IFGP) algorithm is proposed. The algorithm controls the...

In this paper, we provide an approach for modeling data variability as part of the overall software product line modeling approach. Modeling data variability in software product lines allows tailoring the data to the variability of a product. For this purpose, we have extended our Feature Assembly Modeling technique with the concept of persistency feature. We explain how these persistency featu...

Among all the challenges which highlight need of reconfigurability in manufacturing systems, taking into account introduction a new product has been rarely considered by researchers. Indeed, variants future production generation line at initial design stage smooths reconfiguration process line. This paper studies mixed-model assembly planning problem where consists several resources (workers an...