Harmony Search for Balancing Two-sided Assembly Lines
Abstract: Two-sided assembly
lines balancing problems are important problem for large-sized products such as
cars and buses, in which, tasks operations can be performed in the two sides of
the line. In this paper, harmony search algorithm is proposed to solve
two-sided assembly lines balancing
problems type-I (TALBP-I).
The proposed method
adopts the COMSOAL
heuristic and specific features of TALBP in the harmony operators – the
harmony memory consideration, random selection and pitch adjustment – in order
to maintain the local and global search. The proposed method
is evaluated based
on 6 benchmark
problems that are
commonly used in TALBP.
The experiment results show that the proposed method work well and
produces better solution than the heuristic method and genetic algorithm.
Author: Hindriyanto Dwi
Purnomo, Hui-Ming Wee, Hsin Rau
Journal Code: jptindustrigg120002
