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• TITLE: Minimizing Products Rates Variation in Just-in-Time Mixed-Model Manufacturing

  AUTHORS: Ghorbanali Mohammadi, Darius Mohammadi

  KEYWORDS: Mixed-Model Assembly Lines, JIT, Scheduling, Optimization, Manufacturing

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Operations Research, Vol.6 No.2, March 9, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Mixed-Model assembly lines are often used in manufacturing based on just-in-time techniques. The effective utilization of these lines requires a schedule for assembling the different models be determined. The objective is to minimize the total deviation of actual production rates from the desired production rates. Mathematical method with the optimization algorithm is proposed here to solve this problem. To prove the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, a number of test problems are solved. The results show that the proposed algorithm is an efficient and effective algorithm which gives better results with the large problem sizes. This paper presents a practical procedure to minimize total product variation rates, and easy to use by practitioner.