Abstract Nowadays, end customers require personalized products to match their specific needs. Thus, production systems must be extremely flexible. Companies typically exploit assembly lines manufacture produces in great volumes. The development of distinguished by mixed or multi models increases flexibility concerning the number product variants able manufactured. However, few scientific contri...

Assembly line balancing problems consist in partitioning the work necessary to assemble a number of products among di erent stations of an assembly line. We present a hybrid approach for solving such problems, which combines constraint programming and integer programming.

Many problems occur when assigning tasks to work centres, especially in determining the required number of workstations for line balancing which requires a minimum theoretical workstations. The most common problem is bottleneck. In this paper, method proposed solve floating single-model actual exceeds number, and standard time task (work center) cycle time. will represent critical bottle...