Hybridizations in line balancing problems: A comprehensive review on new trends and formulations

O Battaïa, A Dolgui - International Journal of Production Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …

Consideration of workers' differences in production systems modelling and design: State of the art and directions for future research

N Katiraee, M Calzavara, S Finco… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The effects of workforce differences on manufacturing systems have attracted the attention of
a wide range of researchers in recent years. The differences between workers in terms of …

Ergonomic risk and cycle time minimization for the U-shaped worker assignment assembly line balancing problem: A multi-objective approach

Z Zhang, QH Tang, R Ruiz, L Zhang - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Workers still perform the bulk of operations in the manufacturing industry. The consideration
of the assignment of workers and the reduction of ergonomic risks in U-shaped assembly …

Assembly line balancing and worker assignment considering workers' expertise and perceived physical effort

N Katiraee, M Calzavara, S Finco… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In manual assembly systems, workers' differences in terms of skills, level of expertise and
perceived physical effort largely affect the assembly line balancing and system performance …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic disassembly line balancing problem: A mathematical model and ant colony optimization approach

ZA Çil, S Mete, F Serin - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of robots is significantly increasing day by day in manufacturing systems, and
especially improving the efficiency of the lines. Robots can be used to complete disassembly …

U-shaped assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem: A mathematical model and two meta-heuristics

MK Oksuz, K Buyukozkan, SI Satoglu - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

A survey on human resource allocation problem and its applications

S Bouajaja, N Dridi - Operational Research, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we present the existing literature on the human resource allocation problem.
We study the main resolution approaches: exact, heuristic and metaheuristics methods …

Modeling and solving multi-objective mixed-model assembly line balancing and worker assignment problem

R Ramezanian, A Ezzatpanah - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper deals with mixed-model assembly line balancing and worker assignment
problem (MMALBWAP). Mixed-model assembly lines allow the simultaneous assemble of a …

A constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times

F Güner, AK Görür, B Satır, L Kandiller… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For over five decades, researchers have presented various assembly line problems.
Recently, assembly lines with multiple workers at each workstation have become very …

[HTML][HTML] Developing optimization & robust models for a mixed-model assembly line balancing problem with semi-automated operations

P Samouei, J Ashayeri - Applied mathematical modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, we present two new mathematical models for mixed-model assembly line
balancing. The line is semi-automated and characterized by various alternative formats for …