Title
Integrated consideration of assembly line scheduling and feeding: A new model and case study from the automotive industry
Abstract
Line feeding policy decision models decide upon whether a warehouse part is supplied by line stocking, kitting or sequencing. Although the production schedule determines the point of use and the usage rates of parts at the assembly line, no line feeding model till date integrates the operational production schedule decision into the tactical line feeding decision. Therefore, we introduce a new mixed-integer linear programming formulation that models the interactions between both planning problems explicitly. The developed model is applied in a real-life case study of a mixed-model assembly line from a first-tier automotive supplier. The numerical results show that both the cost-optimal line feeding policy decision as well as the resulting costs depend on the production schedule with the inherent degree of grouping equal jobs and the product mix. Depending on the product mix, following a leveled scheduling approach instead of a grouping of equal jobs can increase line feeding costs by up to 18%. Thus, the scheduling decision has to become a crucial element of future line feeding models for mixed-model lines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.cie.2022.108288
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mixed-integer linear programming,Line feeding,Mixed-model assembly line,Scheduling,Automotive
Journal
170
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0360-8352
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Muellerklein100.34
Pirmin Fontaine200.34
Frederik Ostermeier300.34