An optimal concurrent design and loading strategy for a flexible assembly line system: to control the bottleneck |
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Authors: | Behanam Pourbabai |
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Affiliation: | (1) MSCA: Management Science Consultants of America Inc., Suite 100, 211 N. Union St, 22314 Alexandria, Virginia, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, an optimal strategy is presented at the design stage for selection of the required local storages of the workstations and the transporter stations of a finite capacity flexible assembly line system, such that the throughput rate from the system is maximised while controlling the bottleneck problem. For this purpose, a mixed non-Markovian queueing network model is presented to model its performance, a stochastic optimisation model is provided to maximise its throughput rate, and a heuristic algorithm is developed for solving it. Finally, an example is presented and the approximation results are compared against those from a simulation study. |
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Keywords: | Approximation Flow shop Manufacturing Material handling Optimisation Quality control Queueing networks Simulation |
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