[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 constraint programming approach to a real-world workforce scheduling problem for multi-manned assembly lines with sequence-dependent setup times

F Güner, AK Görür, B Satır, L Kandiller… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
For over five decades, researchers have presented various assembly line problems.
Recently, assembly lines with multiple workers at each workstation have become very …

A survey of the parallel assembly lines balancing problem

H Aguilar, A García-Villoria, R Pastor - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Assembly lines are mass production systems which are significant in the industrial
production of both standard and customised products. Currently, industrial companies offer …

Parallel assembly lines worker assignment and balancing problem: A mathematical model and an artificial bee colony algorithm

U Özcan, EK Aydoğan, S Himmetoğlu, Y Delice - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
In today's competitive world, assembly lines are one of the most important industrial
manufacturing systems, which can accommodate the massive increase in customer …

A novel constraint programming and simulated annealing for disassembly line balancing problem with AND/OR precedence and sequence dependent setup times

D Kizilay - Computers & Operations Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study considers recycling the products to reuse or reproduce the precious parts of these
products to provide environmental sustainability and for companies to adapt to competitive …

Two-sided disassembly line balancing problem with sequence-dependent setup time: A constraint programming model and artificial bee colony algorithm

ZA Çil, D Kizilay, Z Li, H Öztop - Expert Systems with Applications, 2022 - Elsevier
The large-size products can allow workers to perform tasks on both sides of the line. Hence,
a two-sided disassembly line is preferred to ensure several advantages, such as a shorter …

An uncertain multi-objective model for simultaneous design of supply chain and assemblers considering sustainable development: a case study

S Niroomand, KB Aviso, A Mahmoodirad - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Supply chain network design (SCND) problems are used to formulate and make strategic
decisions on the number of facilities, network facility location and plant capacity, to ensure …

Cost-oriented robotic assembly line balancing problem with setup times: multi-objective algorithms

Z Li, MN Janardhanan, SG Ponnambalam - Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - Springer
Robots are extensively used during the era of Industry 4.0 to achieve high productivity, better
quality and lower cost. While designing a robotic assembly line, production managers are …

Modelling and solving mixed-model two-sided assembly line balancing problem with sequence-dependent setup time

W Yang, W Cheng - International Journal of Production Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Two-sided assembly lines balancing problem has been extensively studied in recent years.
However, only limited attention has been paid to balancing mixed-model two-sided …