Assembly lines are special kinds of production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity commodities. In many practical manufacturing systems, configuration of assembly lines is fixed and designing a new line may be incurred huge amount of costs and thereby it is not desirable for practitioners. When some changes related to market demand occur, it is wo...

Assembly line balancing is a key for organizational productivity in terms of reduced number of workstations for a given production volume per shift. Mixed-model assembly line balancing is a reality in many organizations. The mixed-model assembly line balancing problem comes under combinatorial category. So, in this paper, an attempt has been made to develop three genetic algorithms for the mixe...

Among all the challenges which highlight need of reconfigurability in manufacturing systems, taking into account introduction a new product has been rarely considered by researchers. Indeed, variants future production generation line at initial design stage smooths reconfiguration process line. This paper studies mixed-model assembly planning problem where consists several resources (workers an...