[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 …

A hybrid genetic algorithm for sequence-dependent disassembly line balancing problem

CB Kalayci, O Polat, SM Gupta - Annals of Operations Research, 2016 - Springer
For remanufacturing or recycling companies, a reverse supply chain is of prime importance
since it facilitates in recovering parts and materials from end-of-life products. In reverse …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

A multiobjective model and evolutionary algorithms for robust time and space assembly line balancing under uncertain demand

M Chica, J Bautista, Ó Cordón, S Damas - Omega, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in demand when manufacturing different products require an optimization
model that includes robustness in its definition and methods to deal with it. In this work we …

Robust assembly line balancing with heterogeneous workers

MCO Moreira, JF Cordeau, AM Costa… - Computers & Industrial …, 2015 - Elsevier
Assembly lines are manufacturing systems in which a product is assembled progressively in
workstations by different workers or machines, each executing a subset of the needed …

A review of cost and profit oriented line design and balancing problems and solution approaches

Ö Hazır, X Delorme, A Dolgui - Annual Reviews in Control, 2015 - Elsevier
This review paper presents the state of the art on the problems, approaches and analytical
models for assembly and transfer line design and balancing that addresses explicitly cost …

The robust (minmax regret) assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem

J Pereira - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Line balancing aims to assign the assembly tasks to the stations that compose the assembly
line. A recent body of literature has been devoted to heterogeneity in the assembly process …