生产线平衡在现实世界

生产线平衡在现实世界(中文3300字,英文2000字)
摘要：生产线平衡（LB）是一个经典的，精心研究的显著工业重要性的运筹学（OR）优化问题。这是其中一个所在领域的专业知识并没有太大帮助的问题之一：无论花了多少年解决它，面对每一次棘手的问题与可能的天文数字的解决方案都并不是关于如何解决这个问题的最好办法，除非你假定老办法是最好的办法。在这里，我们解释一个明显的悖论：虽然很多算法已经被提出，在过去，尽管该问题的实际重要性只是一个市场销售的LB软件。目前似乎可用于工业，如汽车中的应用。我们推测，这可能是由于在学术LB问题之间的没有通过运筹学路径和生产业实际面对的问题。
关键词：生产线平衡，装配生产线，优化

Line Balancing in the Real World
Abstract:Line Balancing (LB) is a classic, well-researched Operations Research (OR) optimization problem of significant industrial importance. It is one of those problems where domain expertise does not help very much: whatever the number of years spent solving it, one is each time facing an intractable problem with an astronomic number of possible solutions and no real guidance on how to solve it in the best way, unless one postulates that the old way is the best way .Here we explain an apparent paradox: although many algorithms have been proposed in the past, and despite the problem’s practical importance, just one commercially available LB software currently appears to be available for application in industries such as automotive. We speculate that this may be due to a misalignment between the academic LB problem addressed by OR, and the actual problem faced by the industry.
Keyword:Line Balancing, Assembly lines, Optimization