ALBP: Assembly Line Balancing Problems


  • Local Search Heuristics for the Assembly Line Balancing Problem with Incompatibilities Between Tasks

Authors


Joaquin Bautista1, Raúl Suárez2, Manuel Mateo3 and Ramón Companys3

 

1 UPC - Nissan Chair

2 UPC - Instituto de Organización y Control de Sistemas Industriales

3 UPC - Departamento de Organización de Empresas


Abstract


This paper deals with the Assembly Line Balancing Problem considering incompatibilities between the tasks with the aim of, first, minimizing the number of workstations and, then, minimizing the cycle time for the minimum number of workstations. In order to solve the problem we propose the use of a Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) obtained from the application of some classic heuristics, based on priority rules, and a genetic algorithm that searches for the solution in the heuristic space. A computational experience is included to illustrate the performance of the proposed approach.



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