Author(s)

Du Yi, Chen Qingxin, Mao Ning

Corresponding Author

Du Yi

Abstract

In order to find an effective approach to decrease tardiness of the heat transfer element with no increase of equipment and human resource cost on one hand, and to enhance productivity on the other hand, the paper proposes to establish an integer programming model. The paper uses the branch and bound method to address the first issue, whose results are analyzed to acquire the optimal solution under the principle of POSP-FM scheduling. With examples, the paper verifies the effectiveness of decreasing tardiness with no increase of equipment cost and human resources cost, and provides advices on the way to construct multichannel so as to decrease tardiness.

Keywords

The variable production line, Tardiness quantity, Branch and bound, Equipment cost, Human resource cost, Heat transfer element