Assessing by Simulation the Effect of Process Variability in the SALB-1 Problem.
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| Title: | Assessing by Simulation the Effect of Process Variability in the SALB-1 Problem. |
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| Authors: | Moncayo-Martínez, Luis A., Arias-Nava, Elias H. |
| Source: | AppliedMath; Sep2023, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p563-581, 19p |
| Subject Terms: | ASSEMBLY line balancing, FUZZY numbers, STOCHASTIC analysis, PROGRAMMING languages, STOCHASTIC control theory, DETERMINISTIC processes |
| Abstract: | The simple assembly line balancing (SALB) problem is a significant challenge faced by industries across various sectors aiming to optimise production line efficiency and resource allocation. One important issue when the decision-maker balances a line is how to keep the cycle time under a given time across all cells, even though there is variability in some parameters. When there are stochastic elements, some approaches use constraint relaxation, intervals for the stochastic parameters, and fuzzy numbers. In this paper, a three-part algorithm is proposed that first solves the balancing problem without considering stochastic parameters; then, using simulation, it measures the effect of some parameters (in this case, the inter-arrival time, processing times, speed of the material handling system which is manually performed by the workers in the cell, and the number of workers who perform the tasks on the machines); finally, the add-on OptQuest in SIMIO solves an optimisation problem to constrain the cycle time using the stochastic parameters as decision variables. A Gearbox instance from literature is solved with 15 tasks and 14 precedence rules to test the proposed approach. The deterministic balancing problem is solved optimally using the open solver GLPK and the Pyomo programming language, and, with simulation, the proposed algorithm keeps the cycle time less than or equal to 70 s in the presence of variability and deterministic inter-arrival time. Meanwhile, with stochastic inter-arrival time, the maximum cell cycle is 72.04 s. The reader can download the source code and the simulation models from the GitHub page of the authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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