Assembly Line Balancing Based on Beam Ant Colony Optimisation
Joint Authors
Chan, Felix T. S.
Huo, Jiage
Wang, Zhengxu
Lee, Carman K. M.
Strandhagen, Jan Ola
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-17, 17 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-10-03
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
17
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We use a hybrid approach which executes ant colony algorithm in combination with beam search (ACO-BS) to solve the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem (SALBP).
The objective is to minimise the number of workstations for a given fixed cycle time, in order to improve the solution quality and speed up the searching process.
The results of 269 benchmark instances show that 95.54% of the problems can reach their optimal solutions within 360 CPU time seconds.
In addition, we choose order strength and time variability as indicators to measure the complexity of the SALBP instances and then generate 27 instances with a total of 400 tasks (the problem size being much larger than that of the largest benchmark instance) randomly, with the order strength at 0.2, 0.6 and 0.9 three levels and the time variability at 5-15, 65-75, and 135-145 levels.
However, the processing times are generated following a unimodal or a bimodal distribution.
The comparison results with solutions obtained by priority rule show that ACO-BS makes significant improvements on the quality of the best solutions.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Huo, Jiage& Wang, Zhengxu& Chan, Felix T. S.& Lee, Carman K. M.& Strandhagen, Jan Ola. 2018. Assembly Line Balancing Based on Beam Ant Colony Optimisation. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-17.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Huo, Jiage…[et al.]. Assembly Line Balancing Based on Beam Ant Colony Optimisation. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-17.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Huo, Jiage& Wang, Zhengxu& Chan, Felix T. S.& Lee, Carman K. M.& Strandhagen, Jan Ola. Assembly Line Balancing Based on Beam Ant Colony Optimisation. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1206255
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1206255