Job rotation in assembly lines employing disabled workers
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In this paper we consider the programming of job rotation in the Assembly Line Worker Assignment and Balancing Problem. The motivation for this study comes from the designing of assembly lines in sheltered work centers for the disabled, where workers have different task execution times. In this context, the well-known training aspects associated with job rotation are particularly desired. We propose a metric along with a mixed integer linear model and a heuristic decompositionmethod to solve this new job rotation problem. Computational results show the efficacy of the proposed heuristics.
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