[HTML][HTML] Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?

N Boysen, P Schulze, A Scholl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Ever since the times of Henry Ford up to today's industry 4.0 era, flow-oriented assembly
processes, where an assembly line conveys the workpieces from workstation to workstation …

A taxonomy of line balancing problems and their solutionapproaches

O Battaïa, A Dolgui - International journal of production economics, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Hybrid metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization: A survey

C Blum, J Puchinger, GR Raidl, A Roli - Applied soft computing, 2011 - Elsevier
Research in metaheuristics for combinatorial optimization problems has lately experienced
a noteworthy shift towards the hybridization of metaheuristics with other techniques for …

A hybrid PSO algorithm for a multi-objective assembly line balancing problem with flexible operation times, sequence-dependent setup times and learning effect

N Hamta, SMTF Ghomi, F Jolai, MA Shirazi - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper addresses multi-objective (MO) optimization of a single-model assembly line
balancing problem (ALBP) where the operation times of tasks are unknown variables and …

A systematic review of research themes and hot topics in assembly line balancing through the web of science within 1990–2017

M Eghtesadifard, M Khalifeh, M Khorram - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[PDF][PDF] Assembly line balancing: a review of developments and trends in approach to industrial application

N Kumar, D Mahto - Global Journal of Researches in Engineering …, 2013 - academia.edu
Assembly line balancing is to know how tasks are to be assigned to workstations, so that the
predetermined goal is achieved. Minimization of the number of workstations and …

Dynamic Programming algorithms and their applications in machine scheduling: A review

EAG de Souza, MS Nagano, GA Rolim - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper aims at presenting a compilation of state-of art references in which dynamic
programming (DP) and its variants have been applied as a solution methods for the …

A branch, bound, and remember algorithm for the simple assembly line balancing problem

EC Sewell, SH Jacobson - INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2012 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present a new exact algorithm for the assembly line balancing problem. The algorithm
finds and verifies the optimal solution for every problem in the combined benchmarks of …

An exact approach for the robust assembly line balancing problem

J Pereira, E Álvarez-Miranda - Omega, 2018 - Elsevier
This work studies an assembly line balancing problem with uncertainty on the task times. In
order to deal with the uncertainty, a robust formulation to handle changes in the operation …

A memetic algorithm for the cost-oriented robotic assembly line balancing problem

J Pereira, M Ritt, ÓC Vásquez - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
In order to minimize costs, manufacturing companies have been relying on assembly lines
for the mass production of commodity goods. Among other issues, the successful operation …