Multi-Stage Simultaneous Lot-Sizing and Scheduling: Planning of Flow Lines with Shifting Bottlenecks

by Florian Seeanner

Overview

Due to a varying product demand (changing product mix) and different production speeds, bottlenecks may shift between the stages. In that case, a simultaneous lot-sizing and scheduling of these stages is recommendable. Hence, an improved version of the General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production Stages (GLSPMS) was developed. Moreover, several reformulation techniques were applied to this model to solve it exactly. Besides, a new meta-heuristic which combines the principles of Variable Neighborhood Decomposition Search (VNDS) and Exchange was implemented to find good solutions, even for a real-world problem case. Finally, further model extensions, e.g., for scarce setup resources, were proposed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783658020880
Publisher:	Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Publication date:	05/14/2013
Series:	Produktion und Logistik , #8
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Dr. Florian Seeanner wrote his dissertation under Prof. Dr. Herbert Meyr’s supervision at the Chair of Production and Supply Chain Management at the Technische .Universität Darmstadt

Table of Contents

Simultaneous Lot-Sizing and Scheduling for flowline production systems.- General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production Stages.- Model reformulation &  Heuristics.