Research on station layout optimization of job shop balancing problem

Targeting at the issues of large floor space of stations, fussy process and divergence among the rhythm of production line in a workshop, the main subject is to achieve a balance characteristic by raising a layout model. First, set a mathematical model, the layout distribution is solved through the genetic algorithm. Secondly, according to the best schedule obtained from MATLAB, a simulation verification is performed on the Plant Simulation platform. Finally, the utilization of each station is compared after the optimization or not. It turns out that the optimized production line shows a significant improvement, the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method is confirmed.