Assembly line balancing with multi-manned tasks

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Endüstri Mühendisliği Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2007

Öğrenci: CEYHAN ERDEM ESİN

Danışman: ÖMER KIRCA

Özet:

In this thesis, we define a new problem area for assembly lines. In the literature, there are various studies on assembly line balancing, but none of them consider multi-manned tasks, task to which at least two operators have to be assigned. Two mathematical models and one constraint programming model are developed for both Type-I and Type-II ALB problems. The objective of Type-I problem is to minimize the number of stations whereas the objective of Type-II problem is to minimize the cycle time. In addition to this, valid inequalities are introduced to make models more efficient. Moreover, heuristic algorithms for both types are developed for large-sized problems. All formulations are applied to a real case study and then experimental analysis are conducted for all formulations to see the effects of problem parameters on performance measures. Exact models are compared each other and performance of heuristic algorithms are compared against the lower bounds.