An Artificial Immune System Approach for Type E Assembly Line Balancing Problem

  • Authors

    • Mohd Nor Akmal Khalid
    • Umi Kalsom Yusof
    • Zarul Fitri Zaaba
    2018-12-09
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.31.23371
  • Artificial immune system, Assembly line balancing problem, Clonal selection, Job sequencing, Manufacturing system, Optimization, Type E,

  • Abstract

    The manufacturing industry has evolved in the past decades, due to the competition of the global economy, where the market demands high quality and customized products, and meeting lowest possible costs are paramount. One of the many processes in manufacturing is the assembly line operation, namely the assembly line balancing (ALB) problem. ALB problem is dependent on optimum resource utilization in order to improve production output, reduces costs, and shortens production lead times. In these recent years, various approaches have been proposed to solve the complexity of assembly line balancing operations, which composed of exact, heuristic, and meta-heuristic approaches. However, little work had been done to solve the type E assembly line balancing problem. This paper proposed an approach using artificial immune system (AIS) algorithm, namely as the artificial immune cell (AIC) approach, for solving type E assembly line balancing problem. An initialization mechanism through the bone marrow model and probabilistic clonal selection mechanism had encouraged efficient exploration and exploitation of the solution space. The computational results over 242 instances of 24 datasets had demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed AIC approach by achieving high-quality solutions (up to 85.94% optimum solutions was obtained). Also, the results were statistically justified by comparing with multi-rule multi-objective simulated annealing (MRMOSA), priority-based genetic approach (PriGA), two-phased genetic approach (2P-GA), and assignment genetic approach (MA-GA).

     

     

     

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    Nor Akmal Khalid, M., Kalsom Yusof, U., & Fitri Zaaba, Z. (2018). An Artificial Immune System Approach for Type E Assembly Line Balancing Problem. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.31), 220-227. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.31.23371

    Received date: 2018-12-07

    Accepted date: 2018-12-07

    Published date: 2018-12-09