‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
With the growth in customers’ demand diversification, mixed-model U-lines (MMUL) have acquired increasing importance in the area of assembly systems. There are generally two different approaches in the literature for balancing such systems. Some researchers believe that since the types of models can...
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doaj-944c7ac0826c419ba3b29337799415ab2021-05-05T13:58:48ZengIslamic Azad UniversityInternational Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations2228-62252228-62332016-03-0161 (WINTER)117521907‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSISMasoud Rabbani0Zohreh Zahedian-Tejenaki1Farnoush Otrody2Amir Farshbaf-Geranmyeh3College of Engineering, University of Tehran Iran, Islamic Republic of Industrial EngineeringSchool of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Iran, Islamic Republic ofSchool of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Iran, Islamic Republic ofSchool of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran Iran, Islamic Republic ofWith the growth in customers’ demand diversification, mixed-model U-lines (MMUL) have acquired increasing importance in the area of assembly systems. There are generally two different approaches in the literature for balancing such systems. Some researchers believe that since the types of models can be very diverse, a balancing approach without simultaneously sequencing of models will not yield an optimum configuration. On the other hand, another group of researchers point to the high cost of balancing systems and prefer to do it only one time regardless of the models’ sequences. In this paper, we aim to compare these two approaches by introducing an economic indicator. To do so, two models as representatives of the two different viewpoints are taken from the literature. To check the validity of this methodology, it is implemented by Lingo 11.0, for small scale, and GA, for a large scale. The obtained results indicate that, from the proposed economic indicator point of view, mixed-model U-lines balancing and sequencing (MMUL/BS) is preferred to its counterpart, mixed-model U-lines balancing (MMULB). This paper offers economic guidelines for managers to choose between only balancing and implementing it by sequencing at the same time.http://ijm2c.iauctb.ac.ir/article_521907_d6fed473bc0cf6223d0cd6c74ff229ea.pdfmixed model u-linesassembly line balancingassembly line balancing and sequencingcost indexgenetic algorithm |
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Masoud Rabbani Zohreh Zahedian-Tejenaki Farnoush Otrody Amir Farshbaf-Geranmyeh ‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS International Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations mixed model u-lines assembly line balancing assembly line balancing and sequencing cost index genetic algorithm |
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Masoud Rabbani Zohreh Zahedian-Tejenaki Farnoush Otrody Amir Farshbaf-Geranmyeh |
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‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS |
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‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS |
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‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS |
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‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS |
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‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS |
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‘balancing and sequencing’ versus ‘only balancing’ in mixed model u-line assembly systems: an economic analysis |
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Islamic Azad University |
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International Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations |
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2228-6225 2228-6233 |
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With the growth in customers’ demand diversification, mixed-model U-lines (MMUL) have acquired increasing importance in the area of assembly systems. There are generally two different approaches in the literature for balancing such systems. Some researchers believe that since the types of models can be very diverse, a balancing approach without simultaneously sequencing of models will not yield an optimum configuration. On the other hand, another group of researchers point to the high cost of balancing systems and prefer to do it only one time regardless of the models’ sequences. In this paper, we aim to compare these two approaches by introducing an economic indicator. To do so, two models as representatives of the two different viewpoints are taken from the literature. To check the validity of this methodology, it is implemented by Lingo 11.0, for small scale, and GA, for a large scale. The obtained results indicate that, from the proposed economic indicator point of view, mixed-model U-lines balancing and sequencing (MMUL/BS) is preferred to its counterpart, mixed-model U-lines balancing (MMULB). This paper offers economic guidelines for managers to choose between only balancing and implementing it by sequencing at the same time. |
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mixed model u-lines assembly line balancing assembly line balancing and sequencing cost index genetic algorithm |
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