This paper presents a case study of production scheduling in the aeronautical industry. Tasks must be scheduled in assembly fixtures with several adjacent workstations, taking into account special constraints where simultaneous processing of the tasks is allowed (adjacency constraints). Such constraints arise due to a space limitation in the fixture. This paper is a continuation of a previous work published in Silva, Morabito and Yanasse (2011), where the objective of the problem was to minimize the makespan. Here, the problem is studied more broadly, where the workforce qualification is represented in four stages, with the objective of minimizing the total amount of workforce needed in each stage, and each stage is modeled as an integer linear programming problem. These models were implemented using an optimization software, and several computational experiments were performed in order to validate the proposed models. The results suggest that productivity gains can be achieved with the models developed in this work.
Scheduling; Aeronautical industry; Assembly in jigs; Linear programming; Adjacency constraints
