Assembly Line Design The Balancing of Mixed-Model Hybrid Assembly Li
Efficient assembly line design is a problem of considerable industrial importance. Unfortunately, like many other design processes, it can be time-consuming and repetitive. In addition to this, assembly line design is often complex owing to the number of
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Brahim Rekiek and Alain Delchambre
Assembly Line Design The Balancing of Mixed-Model Hybrid Assembly Lines with Genetic Algorithms
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Brahim Rekiek Alain Delchambre Université Libre de Bruxelles CAD/CAM Department 50 av. F. D. Roosevelt CP 165/14 1050 Brussels Belgium Series Editor: Professor D. T. Pham Intelligent Systems Laboratory WDA Centre of Enterprise in Manufacturing Engineering University of Wales Cardiff PO Box 688 Newport Road Cardiff CF2 3ET UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Rekiek, Brahim Assembly line design : the balancing of mixed-model hybrid assembly lines with genetic algorithms. - (Springer series in advanced manufacturing) 1. Assembly-line methods 2. Genetic algorithms I. Title II. Delchambre, A. 670.4’2 ISBN-10: 1846281121 Library of Congress Control Number: 2005933477 Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing ISSN 1860-5168 ISBN-10: 1-84628-112-1 e-ISBN 1-84628-114-8 ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-112-9
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This book is dedicated to my parents, to my wife Aaida, and to my children Saad and Inas. Dr B. Rekiek
Foreword
This new book ‘Assembly Line Design’ by Dr Brahim Rekiek and Professor Alain Delchambre is an important contribution in this domain. Its interest is in an integrated approach to the preliminary design of assembly lines (ALs). This approach is based on the grouping genetic algorithm (GGA), where the logical layout (LL) is designed to consider all the constraints and specificities of real-life manual and hybrid multi-product ALs. The LL is defined as the balancing and the resource planning. In addition, a new approach ba
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