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

By Florian Seeanner

In the consumer packaged goods industry, usually a large number of final items are produced in a highly automated flow line production system. Florian Seeanner presents a mathematical model which is an improved version of the General Lot-Sizing and Scheduling Problem for Multiple production Stages (GLSPMS) to tackle the problem of shifting bottlenecks. Especially, a new meta-heuristic is developed which combines the principles of Variable Neighborhood Decomposition Search (VNDS) and Exchange. This VNDS+E heuristic is able to find very good solutions for the improved GLSPMS, including a real-world problem case. Finally, further model extensions, e.g., for scarce setup resources, are proposed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658020881
• ISBN13: 9783658020880
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"