Article ID: | iaor200935042 |
Country: | Poland |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1/2 |
Start Page Number: | 35 |
End Page Number: | 48 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2007 |
Journal: | Decision Making in Manufacturing and Services |
Authors: | Dolgui Alexandre, Delorme Xavier, Belmokhtar Sana, Ignatenko Ivan |
Keywords: | planning, production, programming: integer |
A modular transfer line designing problem is investigated. The problem is to select the best subset of modules (machining units) from a given set and to assign them to different stations so that technological constraints and cycle upper limit are respected and the line cost is minimal. The investigated lines have a mixed activation mode for the machining units of each station, i.e. the units of each station are arranged into a series of stages such that each stage is composed of several units activated in parallel. A mixed integer program approach is proposed to model and solve the corresponding design problem. Improvements are suggested in order to reduce the model size and speed up the computations.