Empirical working time distribution-based line balancing with integrated simulated annealing and dynamic programming

Daniel Leitold (), Agnes Vathy-Fogarassy and Janos Abonyi ()
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Daniel Leitold: University of Pannonia
Agnes Vathy-Fogarassy: University of Pannonia
Janos Abonyi: University of Pannonia

Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 27, issue 2, No 11, 455-473

Abstract: Abstract According to the Industry 4.0 paradigms, the balancing of stochastic production lines requires easily implementable, flexible and robust tools for task to workstations assignment. An algorithm that calculates the performance indicators of the production line based on the convolution of the empirical density distribution functions of the working times and applies dynamic programming to assign tasks to the workstations is proposed. The sequence of tasks is optimised by an outer simulated annealing loop that operates on the set of interchangeable task-pairs extracted from the precedence graph of the task-ordering constraints. Eight line-balancing problems were studied and the results by Monte Carlo simulations were validated to demonstrate the applicability of the algorithm. The results confirm that our methodology does not just provide optimal solutions, but it is an excellent tool in terms of the sensitivity analysis of stochastic production lines.

Keywords: Line balancing; Simulated annealing; Dynamic programming; 06A06; 11B99; 44A35; 60G25; 62E17; 62G30; 62N02; 90C27; 90C39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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