Publications
The impact of transportation optimisation on assembly line feeding Ghent University
In the era of mass customisation, feeding parts to mixed-model assembly lines has proven to be a complex task since customers increasingly demand personalised end products. Consequently, the number of parts required at a single assembly line is sharply increasing. On the one hand, part supply must be done with the aim of avoiding excessive logistical handling activities while managing space at the border of line carefully. Hence, different line ...
Modeling supermarket sizing and placement in the assembly line feeding problem Ghent University
With the steep rise in number of parts required in an assembly line due to customers’ ever-increasing preference for customized products, many different part variants are required to assemble the corresponding products. Consequently, practitioners and academic researchers face the challenge of managing assembly system more efficiently, while considering the limited space at the assembly line. Hitherto, researchers have dealt with the assembly ...
A case study on the integration of assembly line balancing and feeding decisions Ghent University
Mass-customization of products imposes new challenges on the planning of assembly lines due to an increased number of product models and a large variety of parts. Traditionally, both academics and practitioners approached the planning of an assembly line by balancing the assembly line, i.e., assigning tasks to stations, and decided on line feeding policies based on this outcome. However, this approach neglects the reciprocal effects between the ...
Supermarket sizing and placement in the assembly line feeding problem Ghent University
As the number of parts required to feed mixed model assembly lines keeps rising due to mass customization, researchers and practitioners are facing an intricate task of managing assembly systems more efficiently. Much of this intricacy arises due to limited space at the assembly line. So far, researchers have addressed the assembly line feeding problem through various descriptive and optimization models, however, integrating cell (or ...
Balancing disassembly lines under consideration of tool requirements and limited space Ghent University
One of the factors that can enable a shift towards a circular economy is the efficient organization of product disassembly. To this end, we study the disassembly line balancing problem, i.e., the assignment of disassembly tasks to workstations and extend it by practical aspects. We present a prot oriented optimization model, specifically taking into account the resource needs to carry out each task, and the limited space at workstations. The ...
Optimizing kitting cells in mixed-model assembly lines Ghent University
The impact of vehicle type selection on assembly line feeding Ghent University
In recent times, feeding mixed model assembly lines with parts has attracted the attention of practitioners and academic researchers. This can be attributed to mass customization which sharply increased the number of parts required at a single assembly line. The assembly line feeding problem (ALFP) is defined as the assignment of each part to a line feeding policy, with the goal of minimizing total material handling costs. While researchers have ...
Mixed model assembly line feeding with discrete location assignments and variable station space Ghent University
Modeling transportation mode selection in the assembly line feeding problem Ghent University
Feeding mixed model assembly lines with parts is a complex task in an era of mass customization, and therefore it has received increasing academic attention since the last two decades [1]. Making feeding decisions based on an optimization model has been introduced by [2] and is referred to as the assembly line feeding problem (ALFP). Specifically, the ALFP is concerned with the assignment of every part to a line feeding policy, with the goal of ...