Operational planning for electronic assembly on a two-machine mixed-model assembly line /

This research investigates operational, or short-term,

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanders Rosie Christenner
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
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Summary:This research investigates operational, or short-term,
planning for electronic assembly. A medium-demand, medium-
variety printed circuit board (PCB) population will be
produced on a mixed-model assembly line with two identical
machines. The objective is to maximize throughput, which is
the number of PCB types produced daily. The operational
planning problem is decomposed into three smaller problems
that are solved hierarchically. Given weekly PCB
requirements, the operational planning problem determines the
subset of PCBs to produce daily (part selection problem),
sequences the PCBs (sequencing problem), and assigns each PCB
type's components to the machines (workload balancing
problem). The problems are modeled as mixed integer linear
programming problems. Heuristic procedures are developed for
the part selection, sequencing and workload balancing
problems. For the part selection problem, a clustering-based
heuristic that incorporates similarity of both PCB lot due
dates and component requirements is developed. For the daily
sequencing problem, the subset of the PCBs assigned daily (by
part selection problem) is sequenced based on the due date
(time of day) of the lot of PCBS. For workload balancing, a
heuristic is developed to bring together a workload balancing
heuristic such that the solution of the workload balancing
problem is optimal with respect to Johnson's two-machine
scheduling problem. Numerical results are summarized for
randomly generated data, and the heuristics efficiently
solved various problem sizes.
Item Description:Vita.
"Major Subject: Industrial Engineering".
Physical Description:xii, 144 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 99-102.