[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 …

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 …

Automated design of production scheduling heuristics: A review

J Branke, S Nguyen, CW Pickardt… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hyper-heuristics have recently emerged as a powerful approach to automate the design of
heuristics for a number of different problems. Production scheduling is a particularly popular …

Surrogate-assisted genetic programming with simplified models for automated design of dispatching rules

S Nguyen, M Zhang, KC Tan - IEEE transactions on cybernetics, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated design of dispatching rules for production systems has been an interesting
research topic over the last several years. Machine learning, especially genetic …

Human–machine collaborative optimization method for dynamic worker allocation in aircraft final assembly lines

D Wang, F Qiao, L Guan, J Liu, C Ding, J Shi - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
The allocation of workers with diverse skills on assembly stations significantly impacts the
efficiency of aircraft final assembly (AFA). In a real-life assembly process, workers are …

Balancing of parallel U-shaped assembly lines

I Kucukkoc, DZ Zhang - Computers & Operations Research, 2015 - Elsevier
A new hybrid assembly line design, called parallel U-shaped assembly line system, is
introduced and characterised along with numerical examples for the first time. Different from …

A risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming model for a joint multi-item capacitated line balancing and lot-sizing problem

Y Li, F Saldanha-da-Gama, M Liu, Z Yang - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a comprehensive production planning problem under uncertain demand is
investigated. The problem intertwines two NP-hard optimization problems: an assembly line …

A beam search approach for solving type II robotic parallel assembly line balancing problem

ZA Çil, S Mete, E Özceylan, K Ağpak - Applied Soft Computing, 2017 - Elsevier
In a robotic assembly line, a series of stations are arranged along a conveyor belt and a
robot performs on tasks at each station. Parallel assembly lines can provide improving line …

Seru system balancing: Definition, formulation, and exact solution

Y Yu, J Wang, K Ma, W Sun - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Seru production can reduce makespan, labor hours and manpower by improving workers'
workload balance based on the reconfiguration of workers. Therefore, this study focuses on …

An improved preference-based variable neighborhood search algorithm with ar-dominance for assembly line balancing considering preventive maintenance …

L Zhao, Q Tang, Z Zhang - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
For assembly line balancing problem considering preventive maintenance scenarios (ALBP-
PM), the production managers' preferences should be concerned and hence the derived …