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| Author(s): |
Amaro, Gabriel De Souza
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Fiorotto, Diego Jacinto
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de Oliveira, Washington Alves
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Tomazeli, Leonardo Duarte
Total Authors: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH; v. 56, n. 4, p. 31-pg., 2022-09-05. |
| Abstract | |
This paper presents a multicriteria analysis of the process flexibility in the context of the lot sizing problem with parallel machines. In the standard design for lot sizing problems, each machine can manufacture all products (total or complete flexibility). However, installing machines with complete flexibility for several practical applications can be costly. Therefore, it becomes interesting to implement only a limited amount of machine flexibility, where each machine can produce only a small number of different products. Recently, some works presented analyses of process flexibility by considering only the production cost as a criterion. However, the literature lacks a more comprehensive analysis that considers other essential criteria regarding the problem to compute the value of a flexibility configuration. Thus, we provide a detailed multicriteria analysis based on the TOPSIS method that produces a ranking of alternatives for the flexibility configurations. Extensive computational experiments and sensitivity analyses for different scenarios of the lot sizing problem compare individual flexibility configurations and evaluate its advantages in manufacturing planning. The computational results showed that limited flexibility configurations outperform the total flexibility in all scenarios. Moreover, different from the studies considering only the total cost as the criterion, investing in flexibility for all capacity levels has advantages. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/01145-9 - Analysis of machine flexibility for the lot sizing problem in unbalanced systems |
| Grantee: | Gabriel de Souza Amaro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/18754-5 - DIFFERENT SOURCES OF FLEXIBILITY APPLIED TO THE LOT SIZING PROBLEM |
| Grantee: | Diego Jacinto Fiorotto |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |