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 …

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 …

Assembly lines are traditional and still attractive means of mass and large-scale series
production. Since the early times of Henry Ford several developments took place which …

Assembly lines are special flow-line production systems which are of great importance in the
industrial production of high quantity standardized commodities. Recently, assembly lines …

In this work, we consider a U-type assembly line balancing problem with human–robot
collaboration (UALBP-HRC), in which the collaborative robot (cobot) can either parallelly …

In this paper, the constraint programming (CP) approach is applied for the simple assembly
line balancing problem (SALBP) as well as some of its generalizations. CP is a rich …

Productivity improvement in assembly lines is very important because it increases capacity
and reduces cost. If the capacity of the line is insufficient, one possible way to increase the …

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 …

Now-a-days shorter product life cycles and increased demands for customization make it
difficult to produce some products on traditional production lines. Often the best that can be …

The paper presents a new simulated annealing (SA)-based algorithm for the assembly line-
balancing problem with a U-type configuration. The proposed algorithm employs an …