[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 …

Balancing of assembly lines with collaborative robots

C Weckenborg, K Kieckhäfer, C Müller, M Grunewald… - Business …, 2020 - Springer
Motivated by recent developments to deploy collaborative robots in industrial production
systems, we investigate the assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots. The …

Reducing physical ergonomic risks at assembly lines by line balancing and job rotation: A survey

A Otto, O Battaïa - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Factors such as repetitiveness of work, required application of forces, handling of heavy
loads, and awkward, static postures expose assembly line workers to risks of …

Balancing U-type assembly lines with human–robot collaboration

Z Mao, J Zhang, K Fang, D Huang, Y Sun - Computers & Operations …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Harmonizing ergonomics and economics of assembly lines using collaborative robots and exoskeletons

C Weckenborg, C Thies, TS Spengler - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
In the design phase of assembly lines, the harmonization of the frequently conflicting
ergonomic and economic objectives is particularly important to enable both humane and …

Multi-objective collaborative assembly line design problem with the optimisation of ergonomics and economics

MA Abdous, X Delorme, D Battini… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Manufacturing systems are socio-technical systems, with explicit interactions between
humans and technologies in shared workspaces. These shared workspaces could also be …

Constraint programming for solving various assembly line balancing problems

Y Bukchin, T Raviv - Omega, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Resource reconfiguration and optimization in brownfield constrained robotic assembly line balancing problems

M Albus, MF Huber - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Successful operation of an assembly line requires balancing work among resources and
stations of the line to minimize costs, a problem known as the Assembly Line Balancing …

An exact method to incorporate ergonomic risks in Assembly Line Balancing Problems

MCP Junior, AS Michels, L Magatão - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Since ergonomic risks related to the tasks performed by each worker are generally
neglected when solving the Simple Assembly Line Balancing Problem (SALBP) or partially …