商品簡介
Assembly line has been widely used in producing complex items, such as automobiles and other transportation equipment, household appliances and electronic goods.Assembly line balancing is to maximize the efficiency of the assembly line so that the optimal production rate or optimal length of the line is obtained.Since the 1950s there has been a plethora of research studies focusing on the methodologies for assembly line balancing.Methods and algorithms were developed to balance an assembly line, which is operated by human workers, in a fast and efficient fashion.However, more and more assembly lines are incorporating automation in the design of the line, and in that case the line balancing problem structure is altered.For these automated assembly lines, novel algorithms are provided in this book to efficiently solve the automated line balancing problem when the assembly line includes learning automata.
In this book, two forms of rebalancing are provided, forward planning and real time adjustment.The first one is to develop a planning schedule before production begins given the task time improvement is deterministic.The second one is to rebalance the line after the improvements are realized given the task time improvement is random.
