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Minimizing setup costs in a transfer line design problem with sequential operation processing

Dolgui, Alexandre; Kovalev, Sergey; Kovalyov, Mikhail Y.; … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 151 (2014) C, pp. 186-194

cost. We establish computational complexity of various special cases of this problem, present constructive heuristic …

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An Example and a Proposal Concerning the Correlation of Worker Processing Times in Parallel Tasks

Schultz, Kenneth L.; Schoenherr, Tobias; Nembhard, David - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 1, pp. 176-191

actions. Although equity theory predicts that workers will react to the speed of people around them, experimental work has …

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Machine capacity allocation strategies for scheduling a large multi-chip assembly line

Lee, Sang-Jin; Lee, Tae-Eog - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 5 (2011) 3, pp. 327-337

machine processes different types of MCP lots with significant setup times. We therefore should reduce the number of setups …

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What are the components of complex interventions in healthcare? Theorizing approaches to parts, powers and the whole intervention

Clark, Alexander M. - In: Social Science & Medicine 93 (2013) C, pp. 185-193

The components of complex interventions are frequently discussed, invoked and examined in theory and research but … interventions past approaches variously: downplay complexity, focus on the complicatedness of complex interventions, or emphasize … the complexity of complex interventions. Thus, approaches can be categorized as viewing components variously as: (1) Non …

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The joint line balancing and material supply problem

Sternatz, Johannes - In: International Journal of Production Economics 159 (2015) C, pp. 304-318

In production systems of automobile manufacturers multi-variant products are assembled on paced mixed-model assembly lines, which have to be supplied by a lean in-house logistic with containers of different sizes, alternative supply policies and different number of parts. The assignment of...

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A taxonomy of line balancing problems and their solutionapproaches

Battaïa, Olga; Dolgui, Alexandre - In: International Journal of Production Economics 142 (2013) 2, pp. 259-277

Line balancing belongs to a class of intensively studied combinatorial optimization problems known to be NP-hard in general. For several decades, the core problem originally introduced for manual assembly has been extended to suit robotic, machining and disassembly contexts. However, despite...

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Enhanced multi-Hoffmann heuristic for efficiently solving real-world assembly line balancing problems in automotive industry

Sternatz, Johannes - In: European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2014) 3, pp. 740-754

In production systems of automobile manufacturers, multi-variant products are assembled on paced final assembly lines. The assignment of operations to workplaces and workers deter mines the productivity of the manufacturing process. In research, various exact and heuristic solution procedures...

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Eureka: A Hybrid System for Assembly Line Balancing

Hoffmann, Thomas R. - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 1, pp. 39-47

Numerous methods have been proposed for solution of the simple assembly line balancing (SALB) problem. This paper describes a branch and bound algorithm which in many cases is faster than the well-known Hoffmann heuristic technique to which it is related. It introduces a simple bounding rule...

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Balancing Mixed Model Lines with In-Process Inventories

Chakravarty, Amiya K.; Shtub, Avraham - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 9, pp. 1161-1174

This paper deals with mixed-model line balancing; i.e., the problem of combining line balancing with lot sizing in a multi-product environment. Recent developments in the area of multi-echelon production/inventory systems are applied, and algorithms are developed which determine the number of...

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A Dynamic Programming Approach to Stochastic Assembly Line Balancing

Carraway, Robert L. - In: Management Science 35 (1989) 4, pp. 459-471

Consider the problem of minimizing the required number of work stations on an assembly line for a given cycle time when the processing times are independent, normally distributed random variables. The assignment of tasks to stations is subject to precedence conditions, caused by technological...

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