A quantitative approach for scheduling activities to reduce set-up in multiple machine lines

Sherali, Hanif D.; Goubergen, Dirk Van; Landeghem, Hendrik Van

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2006.06.068

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Sherali et al [4] and Seckiner [5] are two studies related to balance workload among workers. The study proposed by Sherali, etc.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Generally, the employee scheduling problem builds the works and timeslots assignments in one stage. The researches [2][3][4][5] are the examples for assigning the schedule and placing the employees to works simultaneously. Lapierre and Ruiz [2] applied Tabu search meta-heuristic technology on solving hospital supply systems located in Montreal, Canada.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Two-Stage Heuristic Based Class-Course-Faculty Assigning Model for Increasing Department-Education Performance

Hsu

Chao

2009

2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science

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This study proposes a two-stage class-course-faculty assigning model to increase the overall departmenteducation performance. In this paper, both faculty and classes are classified into different groups based on teachers' specialties and courses' attributes; the allocating rules for using the classrooms and laboratories are formulated based on the attributes of the courses and the availabilities of the resources; and the class sizes are balanced and merged to decrease the number of elective courses opened to the students. The classified data and organized rules are processed by a heuristic driven process and two fitness functions. Conclusively, the proposed approach provides the advantages of enhancing teaching quality, making good use of student time, saving college budgets, and sharing departmental resources effectively. From the experimental results, there are about 90% of 168 courses assigned to the specific professional teacher. The teachers' and students' expectations on teaching specific subjects and taking certain courses can be satisfied as nearly as possible.

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“…Sherali et al [4] and Seckiner [5] are two studies related to balance workload among workers. The study proposed by Sherali, etc.…”

Section: Technology Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Technology Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Two-Stage Heuristic Based Class-Course-Faculty Assigning Model for Increasing Department-Education Performance

Hsu

Chao

2009

2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science

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“…A setup time is also important for a scheduling process [12]. It is possible to minimize a setup time using such a planning system which generates a right tasks sequence [23,24].…”

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Setup Analysis: Combining SMED with Other Tools

Stadnicka

2015

Management and Production Engineering Review

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Accepted: 9 December 2014 The purpose of this paper is to propose the methodology for the setup analysis, which can be implemented mainly in small and medium enterprises which are not convinced to implement the setups development. The methodology was developed after the research which determined the problem. Companies still have difficulties with a long setup time. Many of them do nothing to decrease this time. A long setup is not a sufficient reason for companies to undertake any actions towards the setup time reduction. To encourage companies to implement SMED it is essential to make some analyses of changeovers in order to discover problems. The methodology proposed can really encourage the management to take a decision about the SMED implementation, and that was verified in a production company. The setup analysis methodology is made up of seven steps. Four of them concern a setups analysis in a chosen area of a company, such as a work stand which is a bottleneck with many setups. The goal is to convince the management to begin actions concerning the setups improvement. The last three steps are related to a certain setup and, there, the goal is to reduce a setup time and the risk of problems which can appear during the setup. In this paper, the tools such as SMED, Pareto analysis, statistical analysis, FMEA and other were used. Implementing the proposed methodology can change the attitude of the management. The risk analysis helps to prevent problems with a setup. This methodology can be used in production companies which make changeovers, particularly, in the companies where SMED hasn't been introduced yet.

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“…Most of the machines and machine lines in manufacturing plants are "shared resources". Hence, the same machines are used to produce different product types or different product variants within a given product family with a set-up involved when production is switched from one product type to another [3]. When losses in a company are taken into consideration, changeover time of dies can be regarded as one of the most important non-value added activity.…”

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confidence: 99%