Article ID: | iaor20012313 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 68 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 29 |
End Page Number: | 42 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Sianesi Andrea, Caridi Maria |
Keywords: | production: JIT |
This work deals with production smoothing, one of the keys of success of Just In Time and Lean Production. By levelling the load of the workstations, production smoothing allows a regular material flow, shorter manufacturing lead times, and lower work in process. Different solutions to the mixed-model assembly lines sequencing problem have been proposed in literature. In this paper, a Multi-Agent System is presented, which solves this problem according to the theory of autonomous agents. The experimental results show that this innovative approach has a good performance if compared with the traditional ones.