Shifting economic bottleneck identification

Junqiang Wang, Jian Chen, Shuo Wang, Yingfeng Zhang, Shudong Sun

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Abstract

Shifting economic bottleneck identification aims to improve the overall throughput of manufacturing system. Firstly the two new concepts, throughput sensitivity of machine and corresponding economic bottleneck, are mathematically defined. Secondly considering both throughput effect and active duration of machine, a new two-dimensional bottleneck indicator named active throughput and duration (ATD) is presented and new concave-convex Gantt chart is given for scheduling representation. Thirdly the shifting economic bottleneck identification (SEBI) method is presented to identify either the momentary economic bottleneck or statistically stable bottleneck. What's more, it also works well when facing the sole economic bottleneck, multiple economic bottlenecks and shifting economic bottleneck. Finally a practical job shop scheduling problem is optimized and the bottleneck identification is gained by the proposed method. Also a comparison between the proposed method and existing method is made. The results show that the proposed approach is effective and explicit for shifting economic bottleneck identification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM2011
Pages1760-1764
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventIEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM2011 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 6 Dec 20119 Dec 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
ISSN (Print)2157-3611
ISSN (Electronic)2157-362X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM2011
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period6/12/119/12/11

Keywords

  • active throughput and duration
  • bottleneck identification
  • Economic bottleneck
  • job shop scheduling
  • shifting bottleneck

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