Citation:
Mohd F. Rashid, Ashutosh Tiwari and Windo Hutabarat, An integrated representation scheme for assembly sequence planning and assembly line balancing. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2011), pp. 125-131, 6-8 September 2011, Glasgow, UK
Abstract:
In a typical assembly optimisation, Assembly Sequence Planning and Assembly Line Balancing are
performed independently. However, competition has compelled the manufacturer to innovate by
integrating the optimisation of both problems. To incorporate ASP and ALB optimisations into a single
integrated optimisation, a clear prerequisite is the availability of integrated ASP and ALB representation.
Although many assembly representation works has been proposed, none of them fully meet the
requirements of integrated optimisation because they were developed independently from various needs.
In this paper, an integrated representation scheme for ASP and ALB that incorporate essential
optimisation information is developed. The proposed representation scheme is built based on assembly
tasks and represented using precedence graph and data matrix. The outcome from presented example
showed that the information for ASP and ALB optimisation can be integrated and represented using task based
precedence graph and data matrix, without discarding important attributes.