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 …

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 …

Adding robots to a human-operated assembly line influences both the short-and long-term
operation of the line. However, the effects of robots on assembly line capacity and on cycle …

Two-sided assembly lines are usually utilized to produce large-sized high-volume products.
Recently robots are widely utilized in this line to replace the manual handling and manage …

This paper presents a comprehensive review and evaluation of heuristics and meta-
heuristics for the two-sided assembly line balancing problem. Though a few reviews have …

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 …

Growing interests from customers in customised products and increasing competitions
among peers necessitate companies to configure their manufacturing systems more …

Assembly lines are frequently used as a production method to assemble complex products.
Two-sided assembly lines are utilized to assemble large-sized products (eg, cars, buses …

There are many factors which affect the performance of a complex production system.
Efficiency of an assembly line is one of the most important of these factors since assembly …

Due to immense role of an efficient assembly line in today's manufacturing systems, the
consideration of this paper is devoted to address the straight and U-shaped assembly line …