Load Balancing - Machine Capitilization

[emrekuruu]

Im not too happy with how were dealing with load balancing right now. I dont want to add a constraint for it, it seems like its too tricky to find a good tolerance level. Here are some possible avenues of direction in mind:

1- Use a max time constraint ( again another constriant but easier to find a good value for it )

2- Add the absolute difference of machine capitilization in the optimizaition cost

Even without these if the distrubution of colors is even capitilization will be fine since initial and last parts gives us no color changes.

But in scenarios with un-even color distubution ( for example 17 of the parts are supposed to be colored red out of 20) then we might want to split them in two machines even if it means to take an extra color change cost.

To model this we actually need to know ( or make up ) good values for color cost - and how much we value machine capitilization