The increasing market demand for product variety forces manufacturers to design mixed-model assembly lines on which different product models can be switched back and forth and mixed together with little changeover costs. This paper describes the design and implementation of an optimization-based scheduling algorithm for mixed-model compressor assembly lines of Toshiba with complicated component...

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In this paper, algorithms are presented in order to determine the best disassembly sequence for a sub-assembly and a system life-cycle model for disassembly-assembly line design. The main contribution consists in the determination of a sequence which has the minimal number of components to disassemble, taken into account several criteria: stability, the geometrical form, operations done in para...

This paper investigates the integration of strategic and tactical decisions in the supply chain network design (SCND) considering assembly line balancing (ALB) under demand uncertainty. Due to the decentralized decisions, a novel bi-level stochastic programming (BLSP) model has been developed in which SCND problem has been considered in the upper-level model, while the lower-level model contain...

This paper is concerned about the sequencing problems in pull production systems which are composed of one mixed-model assembly line and one flexible fabrication flow line with limited intermediate buffers. Two objectives are considered simultaneously: minimizing the total variation in parts consumption in the assembly line and minimizing the makespan in the fabrication line. The mathematical m...

a few of the presented soil behavior models are capable of predicting the triggering and post liquefaction and also shear band mechanism through the soil media. the assessment of earth-dam body behavior as a soil structure made of cohesive soil in core and non-cohesive soil as the core supports, including water interaction at upstream through earthquake upon a multi-line constitutive equations ...

There are many factors which affect the performance of a complex production system. Efficiency of an assembly line is one of the most important of these factors since assembly lines are generally constructed as the last stage of an entire production system. Parallel two-sided assembly line system is a new research domain in academia though these lines have been utilised to produce large sized p...