Resource Constrained Assembly Line Balancing Problem Solved with Ranked Positional Weight Rule

Hsiu-Hsueh Kao (), Din-Horng Yeh () and Yi-Hsien Wang ()
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Hsiu-Hsueh Kao: Department of Business Administration, Tamkang University, TAIWAN
Din-Horng Yeh: National Chung Cheng University, TAIWAN
Yi-Hsien Wang: Chinese Culture University, TAIWAN

Review of Economics & Finance, 2011, vol. 1, 71-80

Abstract: We study a resource constrained assembly line balancing problem (RCALBP) presented by A?pak and G?k?en, who developed a 0-1 integer programming model to find the optimal solution. However, this model is inefficient in solving large-scale problems. In this paper, we propose a simple efficient heuristic that is based on the widely-used ranked positional weight (RPW) rule. The example given by A?pak and G?k?en is used for illustration, and numerical results of sample problems selected from the literature are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed heuristic.

Keywords: Assembly line balancing; Resource-constrained; Heuristic; Ranked positional weight (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C44 C61 D85 E23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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