Abstract
In this work a new variant of the Mixed-Model Sequencing Problem with Work overload Minimization is formulated and evaluated. The new variant regularizes production, in addition to increase the amount of completed work through the workers’ activation at certain moments of their workday and to fulfill the conditions from collective agreements in terms of operating level of workers. Thus, we seek to reduce the inventory cost by the balance of the component consumptions and maximizing productivity by the reduction of non-completed work, within the legal field. We check is possible to improve both production regularity and productivity at once and without exceeding the operation level of workers, by means of a case study.
This work was funded by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spanish Government) through the FHI-SELM2 (TIN2014-57497-P) project.
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Time assigned to workstations to perform its workload.
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Maximum time that a unit may be retained for a workstation, it is fulfulled \(l_{k} - c \ge 0\).
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Team of two workers with identical skills and tools.
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Bautista-Valhondo, J., Alfaro-Pozo, R., Batalla-García, C. (2017). Productivity Improvement, Considering Legal Conditions and Just in Time Principles in the Mixed-Model Sequencing Problem. In: Amorim, M., Ferreira, C., Vieira Junior, M., Prado, C. (eds) Engineering Systems and Networks. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45748-2_22
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