Author:
Waldemar Grzechca
Affiliation:
Institute of Automatic Control, The Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Keyword(s):
Assembly line balancing, Two-sided structure, Line time, Line efficiency, Smoothness index.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
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Formal Methods
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Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
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Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
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Optimization Algorithms
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Planning and Scheduling
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Simulation and Modeling
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The paper considers simple assembly line balancing problem and two-sided assembly line structure. In the last four decades a large variety of heuristic and exact solutions procedures have been proposed to balance one-sided assembly line in the literature. Some heuristic were given to balance two-sided lines, too. Some measures of solution quality have appeared in line balancing literature: balance delay (BD), line efficiency (LE), line time (LT) and smoothness index (SI). These measures are very important for estimation the balance solution quality. Author of this paper modified and discussed the line time and smoothness for two-sided assembly line. Some problems, which appeared during evaluations, are mentioned.