作者
Amir Nourmohammadi, Hamidreza Eskandari
发表日期
2017/2/6
期刊
Assembly Automation
卷号
37
期号
1
页码范围
135-143
出版商
Emerald Publishing Limited
简介
Purpose
This paper aims to optimize the configuration of assembly lines (ALs) considering the two long-term decision problems within the line balancing and part feeding (PF) contexts, when the supermarket concept is applied in PF.
Design/methodology/approach
To this purpose, a bi-level mathematical model is proposed to deal with the assembly line balancing problem (ALBP) and supermarket location problem (SLP) during the strategic decision-making phase of ALs’ configuration. The proposed model is applied on the known test problems taken from the ALBP literature to verify its performance.
Findings
The computational results verify that when the proposed structure is applied, the resulting AL configurations are optimized from both ALBP and SLP considerations in terms of the number of stations and line efficiency as well as supermarket transportation and installation costs.
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