The concept of lean manufacturing was developed for maximizing the resource utilization
through minimization of waste, later on lean was formulated in response to the fluctuating …

Line balancing belongs to a class of intensively studied combinatorial optimization problems
known to be NP-hard in general. For several decades, the core problem originally …

Disassembly operations are inevitable elements of product recovery with the disassembly
line as the best choice to carry out the same. In the light of different structures of returned …

The purpose of this work is to efficiently design disassembly lines taking into account the
uncertainty of task processing times. The main contribution of the paper is the development …

One of the major activities performed in product recovery is disassembly. Disassembly line is
the most suitable setting to disassemble a product. Therefore, designing and balancing …

As the U-shaped assembly lines are concerned with manual assembly operations, workers'
performance plays a major role. However, the past studies assume that all workers can carry …

Two-sided assembly lines are often designed to produce large-sized products, such as
automobiles, trucks and buses. In this type of a production line, both left-side and right-side …

In traditional assembly lines, it is reasonable to assume that task execution times are the
same for each worker. However, in Sheltered Work Centres for Disabled this assumption is …

This research deals with line balancing under uncertainty and presents two robust
optimization models. Interval uncertainty for operation times was assumed. The methods …

Within U-shaped assembly lines, the increase of labour costs and subsequent utilisation of
robots has led to growing energy consumption, which is the current main expense of auto …