Nowadays, considering the constant changes in customers' demands, manufacturing
systems tend to move more and more towards customization while ensuring the expected …

In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …

Prior studies have investigated the relationship between Industry 4.0 technologies and work.
This paper acknowledges the contributions of such studies and builds on their perspective to …

Assembly systems (ASs) have moved into the era of mass customisation and Industry 4.0 (I4.
0). Mass customisation involves a shift from the production of high quantities of the same …

In light of the Industry 5.0 trend towards human-centric and resilient industries, human-robot
collaboration (HRC) assembly lines can be used to enhance productivity and workers' well …

Human–robot collaboration can enhance productivity of production lines and reduce human
ergonomic risk. The numbers and types of robots and stations in which robots are allocated …

In this review paper, recent developments in robotic problems are cited. A robotic
manufacturing system includes at least a robot-as a material handling device-, a co-worker …

In this work, we consider a U-type assembly line balancing problem with human–robot
collaboration (UALBP-HRC), in which the collaborative robot (cobot) can either parallelly …

The collaboration of human workers and robots draws increasing attention from the
manufacturing enterprises to embrace the Industry 4.0 paradigm in a competitive way …

A manufacturing system able to perform a high variety of tasks requires different types of
resources. Fully automated systems using robots possess high speed, accuracy …