Strategic robust mixed model assembly line balancing based on scenario planning

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-314

  Xu, Weida ^a   Xiao, Tianyuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

assembly line balancing; genetic algorithm; mixed model; robust; scenario planning

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE; ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DECISION MAKERS; DECISION SELECTION; MIXED MODEL; MIXED-MODEL ASSEMBLY LINES; MODEL YIELDS; POOR PERFORMANCE; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; ROBUST; ROBUST CRITERIA; ROBUST GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ROBUST MODELS; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SCENARIO PLANNING; SOLUTION PROCEDURE; TASK ASSIGNMENT; TASK ELEMENTS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

ASSEMBLY;

EID: 79958174505     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(11)70045-1     Document Type: Article

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