Flow shop operator scheduling through constraint satisfaction and constraint optimisation techniques

Gilles Neubert and Matteo M. Savino

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management, 2009, vol. 4, issue 5/6, 549-568

Abstract: Workers scheduling in not highly automated production lines is an important task, especially when in a production line the number of operators is less than the number of workstations. Finding an optimal distribution plan can increase the line throughput, managing the workforce and the workload in a better way. This work focuses on the operator-scheduling problem for an electromechanical assembly line. Workforce distribution on the workstations has been made with a centralised scheduling based on a mathematical model which, through constraint optimisation principles, is able to find the optimal distribution of workforce optimising fundamental parameters, such as man-hours, throughput, makespan and work in process.

Keywords: operator scheduling; constraint optimisation problem; COP; constraint satisfaction problem; CSP; workforce distribution; flow shop scheduling; electromechanical assembly; mathematical modelling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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