Production scheduling of assembly fixtures in the aeronautical industry

Authors:
Bruno Jensen Virginio Da Silva;Reinaldo Morabito;Denise Sato Yamashita;Horacio Hideki Yanasse
Affiliations:
Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil;Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Venue:
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Year:
2014

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Abstract

In this work, we study the production scheduling of a real world assembly problem present in the aeronautical industry. Parts of aircrafts should be produced on fixtures, which are commonly used in aircraft manufacturing and consist of several workstations. Due to a lack of physical space in the fixture, when a workstation is in use, other workers cannot use adjacent workstations in this fixture. These constraints are called here adjacency constraints. This assembly fixture scheduling problem is studied in the context of a workforce learning process including four main qualification stages (or epochs). Mathematical models are developed and implemented for each stage using a modeling language and an optimization solver. Computational experiments with this approach were performed in a case study of a Brazilian aeronautical company and they resulted in better solutions than those currently practiced in the company.