کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
---|---|---|---|---|
477654 | 1446174 | 2008 | 14 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
The importance of ensuring short set-up times in manufacturing has been well-documented in the literature over the past years. However, this body of work largely addresses situations involving a single machine with no specific worker-related issues. In practice, there exist multiple machines or workstations that form a machine line, and that need set-up operations to be performed by multiple workers. The existing literature does not provide adequate methodologies for set-up reduction in such cases. This paper describes a quantitative modeling and algorithmic approach for scheduling activities or tasks in order to minimize the set-up time in such situations, also taking into account relevant secondary objectives such as balancing the workload amongst the workers, concentrating slack toward the end of the set-up process, and minimizing the movement costs of the workers performing the different set-up tasks. Three real-life examples are used to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 187, Issue 3, 16 June 2008, Pages 1224–1237