Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers

Assembly line balancing (ALB) is about distributing the assembly tasks into workstations with the almost equal workload. Recently, researchers started to consider the resource constraints in ALB such as machine and worker, to make the assembly layout more efficient. This paper presents an ALB with...

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Main Authors: Nur Hairunnisa, Kamarudin, M. F. F., Ab Rashid
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Published: IOP Publishing 2017
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description Assembly line balancing (ALB) is about distributing the assembly tasks into workstations with the almost equal workload. Recently, researchers started to consider the resource constraints in ALB such as machine and worker, to make the assembly layout more efficient. This paper presents an ALB with resource constraints (ALB-RC) to minimize the workstation, machine and worker. For the optimization purpose, genetic algorithm (GA) with two new crossovers is introduced. The crossovers are developed using ranking approach and known as rank-based crossover type I and type II (RBC-I and RBC-II). These crossovers are tested against popular combinatorial crossovers using 17 benchmark problems. The computational experiment results indicated that the RBC-II has better overall performance because of the balance between divergence and guidance in the reproduction process. In future, the RBC-I and RBC-II will be tested for different variant of ALB problems.
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spelling ump-189592018-05-01T23:39:16Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18959/ Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers Nur Hairunnisa, Kamarudin M. F. F., Ab Rashid TS Manufactures Assembly line balancing (ALB) is about distributing the assembly tasks into workstations with the almost equal workload. Recently, researchers started to consider the resource constraints in ALB such as machine and worker, to make the assembly layout more efficient. This paper presents an ALB with resource constraints (ALB-RC) to minimize the workstation, machine and worker. For the optimization purpose, genetic algorithm (GA) with two new crossovers is introduced. The crossovers are developed using ranking approach and known as rank-based crossover type I and type II (RBC-I and RBC-II). These crossovers are tested against popular combinatorial crossovers using 17 benchmark problems. The computational experiment results indicated that the RBC-II has better overall performance because of the balance between divergence and guidance in the reproduction process. In future, the RBC-I and RBC-II will be tested for different variant of ALB problems. IOP Publishing 2017-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18959/1/2017%20Hairunnisa%20Rank%20based%20crossovers.pdf Nur Hairunnisa, Kamarudin and M. F. F., Ab Rashid (2017) Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers. Journal of Physics: Conference series, 908 (012059). pp. 1-7. ISSN 1742-6588 (print); 1742-6596 (online). (Published) https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/908/1/012059 10.1088/1742-6596/908/1/012059
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Nur Hairunnisa, Kamarudin
M. F. F., Ab Rashid
Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers
title Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers
title_full Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers
title_fullStr Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers
title_full_unstemmed Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers
title_short Assembly Line Balancing with Resource Constraints using New Rank-Based Crossovers
title_sort assembly line balancing with resource constraints using new rank-based crossovers
topic TS Manufactures
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