JISE

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]

Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 49-70

Fuzzy Flexibility and Product Variety in Lot-Sizing

Jing-Shing Yao, Wen-Tao Huang^* and Tien-Tsai Huang^*+
Department of Mathematics
National Taiwan University
Taipei, 106 Taiwan
^*Graduate Institute of Management Sciences
Tamkang University
Tamsui, 251 Taiwan
⁺Department of Industrial Management
Lunghwa University of Science and Technology
Taoyuan, 333 Taiwan
E-mail: normanbb@mail.lhu.edu.tw

In terms of flexibility and product variety in lot-sizing systems of crisp cases, the average demand of per unit of time (m_j), the relative duration of setup (q_j), and the unit cost of production (c_j) are considered. Instead of using the usual method that the m_j, q_j, and c_j in the total cost function are respectively fuzzified by the triangular fuzzy numbers to derive fuzzy total cost, in this paper, we construct three different intervals to include m_j,q_j, and c_j, respectively, and then consider the fuzzification of the system from these three different intervals directly. And finally the fuzzy total cost is obtained. By applying respectively the signed distance and centroid method for defuzzification, two different total cost functions are obtained, and thus the respective optimal solutions are computed.

Keywords: fuzzy sets, signed distance, fuzzy total cost, lot-sizing, flexibility, centroid, product variety

Retrieve PDF document (JISE_200701_03.pdf)