Problem formulation: In order to solve the above
problem, the fixed rate launching algorithm as shown in
(1) is applied. First, the production requirement is divided
by 3 since there are three parallel lines. Due to the fact
that the number of product should be an integer number;
therefore, model B is arbitrarily assigned to line 1 only
and the remaining models are equally divided among
three lines. The production requirement, work content
time and total work content time for the inspection line
are shown in Table 1 and 2. Note that model B will not
be included in Table 2. In order to implement the formula,
let define the variables as follows: