Author
Pessan, C., Neron, E., Haouari, Mohamed
Publication Date
2013
Publication Place
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Inderscience Publishers
Subject
Parallel machine scheduling, Lower bounds, Production resetting, Revisited energetic reasoning, Setup tasks, Serial production lines, Production flexibility, Setup time reduction, Ball bearings, Preemptive relaxation, Ball bearing manufacture
Type
Periodical
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1751-5262
Record ID
78cb4737-4b8b-499d-aa55-b8b9bb931bad
Library Location
Industrial Engineering
Date
2013
Notes
Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.
Sample Text
Efficient production resettings are necessary to achieve production flexibility. For this reason, it is of primary importance to reduce the setup time required to switch the production from one product type to another, and more generally to minimise the loss of production during these resetting phases. In this paper, we investigate the problem of scheduling operations within a production resetting that arises at the ball bearing factories of the SKF group. In the case of full serial production lines, improving the setup times amount to minimising the time spent prior to restarting production. We show that the problem of scheduling operations within a production resetting can be modelled as an unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem, and we propose several lower bounds. The first one is an extension of the improved energetic reasoning to the unrelated parallel machine problem. The second one is based on a preemptive relaxation that includes valid inequalities. We report the results of computational experiments that were carried out on both industrial and generated instances and that provide evidence of the efficacy of the proposed lower bounds.
DOI
10.1504/EJIE.2013.057383
Cilt
7
