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Minimizing the Makespan for a Two-Stage Three-Machine Assembly Flow Shop Problem with the Sum-of-Processing-Time Based Learning Effect
Author
Source
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-05-23
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Two-stage production process and its applications appear in many production environments.
Job processing times are usually assumed to be constant throughout the process.
In fact, the learning effect accrued from repetitive work experiences, which leads to the reduction of actual job processing times, indeed exists in many production environments.
However, the issue of learning effect is rarely addressed in solving a two-stage assembly scheduling problem.
Motivated by this observation, the author studies a two-stage three-machine assembly flow shop problem with a learning effect based on sum of the processing times of already processed jobs to minimize the makespan criterion.
Because this problem is proved to be NP-hard, a branch-and-bound method embedded with some developed dominance propositions and a lower bound is employed to search for optimal solutions.
A cloud theory-based simulated annealing (CSA) algorithm and an iterated greedy (IG) algorithm with four different local search methods are used to find near-optimal solutions for small and large number of jobs.
The performances of adopted algorithms are subsequently compared through computational experiments and nonparametric statistical analyses, including the Kruskal–Wallis test and a multiple comparison procedure.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Lin, Win-Chin. 2018. Minimizing the Makespan for a Two-Stage Three-Machine Assembly Flow Shop Problem with the Sum-of-Processing-Time Based Learning Effect. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1152838
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lin, Win-Chin. Minimizing the Makespan for a Two-Stage Three-Machine Assembly Flow Shop Problem with the Sum-of-Processing-Time Based Learning Effect. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1152838
American Medical Association (AMA)
Lin, Win-Chin. Minimizing the Makespan for a Two-Stage Three-Machine Assembly Flow Shop Problem with the Sum-of-Processing-Time Based Learning Effect. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1152838
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1152838