A Firefly Algorithm for the Alternative Subgraphs Assembly Line Balancing Problem

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 290 - 297, 31.12.2019

Ummahan Palamut Şener Akpınar

Abstract

In
the developing industrial world, assembly lines play an important role in the
production of larger quantities of products and efficient use of scarce resources.
Assembly line consist an equipment system for flow of workpieces in
mass-production operations. Today, the production of many products, especially
multi-part products, is carried out with the help of these assembly line
systems. But we encounter with real life problems of the manufacturing products
in these complex systems. Assembly line balancing problems are one of them.
Assembly line balancing problems (ALBP) simply assign a set of tasks to a group
of the workstations by considering precedence relations between the assembly
tasks. Precedence relations are represented by a predetermined graph. But the
assembly process may have subgraphs of alternative priorities. This has led to the
emergence of the Alternative Subgraph Assembly Line Balancing Problems (ASALBP).
Such problems are caused by changing the processing times of the jobs depending
on the order of operations with different mounting alternatives. This study
will focus on proposed the new metaheuristic firefly for the solution the
Alternative Subgraph Assembly Line Balancing Problem performance evaluation was
made on the test problems obtained from the related scientific literature.

Keywords

Assembly line balancing, Metaheuristic, Firefly algorithm

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