| Article ID: | iaor2001320 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 64 |
| Start Page Number: | 399 |
| End Page Number: | 407 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Authors: | Klundert Joris van de, Klomp Cornelis, Spieksman Frits C.R., Voogt Siem |
| Keywords: | electronics industry |
In this paper we describe a case study in the operational planning of the assembly of printed circuit boards. Given a line of placement machines and given a family of boards we develop a heuristic algorithm which focuses on the so-called feeder rack assignment problem. This problem addresses the question: where to attach the feeders alongside the feeder racks of the placement machines? Computational results on real-life instances indicate that the heuristic is superior to approaches currently used in practice.