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

Assembly line balancing (ALB) deals with how tasks are assigned in an assembly line to
reach the required production rate and to optimize goals. Tasks in assembly line are …

Cuckoo search (CS) is one of the well-known evolutionary techniques in global optimization.
Despite its efficiency and wide use, CS suffers from premature convergence and poor …

Remanufacturing is an effective way to realize the reutilization of resources. Disassembly, as
an essential step of remanufacturing, is usually finished by manual work which is low …

The consideration of this paper is given to address the straight and U-shaped assembly line
balancing problem. Although many attempts in the literature have been made to develop …

This study addresses a resource-constrained unrelated parallel machine scheduling
problem with machine eligibility restrictions. Majority of the traditional scheduling problems …

Due to immense role of an efficient assembly line in today's manufacturing systems, the
consideration of this paper is devoted to address the straight and U-shaped assembly line …

This paper aims at multi-objective straight and U-shaped assembly line balancing problems
with the fuzzy task processing times. The problems are referred to herein as f-SALBP and f …

Assembly lines (conveyors) are traditional means of large-scale and mass-scale
productions. An assembly line balancing problem is needed for optimizing the assembly …

Considering preventive maintenance (PM) scenarios in the assembly line balancing
problem (ALBP) have been proved effective and can be used to increase production …