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Tekstil Ve Konfeksiyon, vol.25, pp.345-351, 2015 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
In this study, a line balancing problem, which considers flexibility
constraints of operations, has been presented to respond fast changing
sectoral market demands in textile and apparel industry. This problem,
called as the flexibility constrained line balancing problem (FCLBP) in
lean manufacturing, takes into account operation flexibilities and
assigns them to the available operators using the flexibility
boundaries. The material of the study is the operation details that will
be balanced the line in the sewing department as in (1). The method of
the study is integer mathematical programming and meta-heuristic
algorithm. Using the integer model, minimum idle time per operator in a
given production range will be obtained and, furthermore, using the
genetic algorithm, market demands will be responded in different
balanced number. Lastly, using the algorithm, software has been
programmed in C# to be used in the textile and apparel industry. Also,
the high-efficiency balancing results will be obtained by means of the
software.