I have to write a program for assembly line balancing utilizing the Largest Candidate rule. Basically that is taking a series of elements with an associated time, then reordering the elements in descending order by time, ie the longest time first. Then I must group the elements into work stations by observing other constraints. Any suggestions. I am still pretty new to Matlab so my knowledge is still pretty basic.
I am having a hard time visualizing how to group the elements into work stations. There is a time cycle which the sum of the time of the grouped elements cannot exceed. There are also precedence factors which dictate which station certain elements can be in. I just cannot figure out how to account for all of it. It seems to me there would be an overwhelming amount of "if" statements in this code.
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