Assembly line balancing problems are concerned with the distribution of work required to assemble a product in mass or series production among a set of work stations on an assembly line. The specific problem considered here is known as the time and space constrained simple assembly line balancing problem. Among several possible objectives we consider the one of minimizing the number of necessar...

In this paper we study an assembly line balancing problem that occurs in sheltered worker centers for the disabled, where workers with very different characteristics are present. We are interested in the situation in which complete parallel assembly lines are allowed and name the resulting problem as parallel assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem (PALWABP). This approach enables...

This paper is focused on the solution quality and computing time requirements of heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing. It is based on a recent paper (Amen, International Journal of Production Economics 68 (2000), which describes in detail the solution process of existent and two new heuristics. After a short review of the historic origin and the wideness of assembly line ...

This paper addresses a multi-objective mathematical model for the mixed-model two-sided assembly line balancing and worker assignment with different skills. In this problem, the operation time of each task is dependent on the skill of the worker. The following objective functions are considered in the mathematical model: (1) minimizing the number of mated-stations (2), minimizing the number of ...