[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 …

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 …

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 …

Scheduling cluster tools in semiconductor manufacturing: Recent advances and challenges

CR Pan, MC Zhou, Y Qiao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cluster tools are automated robotic manufacturing systems containing multiple computer-
controlled process modules. They have been increasingly used for wafer fabrication. This …

An improved multi-objective multifactorial evolutionary algorithm for assembly line balancing problem considering regular production and preventive maintenance …

Q Tang, K Meng, L Cheng, Z Zhang - Swarm and evolutionary computation, 2022 - Elsevier
Assembly line balancing considering regular production and preventive maintenance
scenarios (ALBP_RP/PM) is a new and effective way to simultaneously handle the assembly …

Workers' rest allowance and smoothing of the workload in assembly lines

S Finco, D Battini, X Delorme, A Persona… - … Journal of Production …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Ergonomic aspects have a crucial role in manual assembly systems. They impact on the
workers' health, final product quality and productivity. For these reasons, there is the …

A review of two-sided assembly line balancing problem

MR Abdullah Make, MFF Ab. Rashid… - The International Journal …, 2017 - Springer
Assembly line balancing (ALB) is concerned with assigning tasks within an assembly line to
meet the required production rate for optimization purposes. On the other hand, two-sided …

A comparative study of exact methods for the simple assembly line balancing problem

Z Li, I Kucukkoc, Q Tang - Soft Computing, 2020 - Springer
Exact methods have shown advanced and promising performance in solving the simple
assembly line balancing problem, known as NP-hard. This research investigates the impact …

A realistic multi-manned five-sided mixed-model assembly line balancing and scheduling problem with moving workers and limited workspace

B Naderi, A Azab, K Borooshan - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The assembly line balancing problem can completely vary from one production line to the
other. This paper deals with a realistic assembly line for the automotive industry inspired by …