Assembly line balancing is significant for efficient and cost effective production of the products and is therefore gaining popularity in recent years. However, several uncertain events in assembly lines might causes variation in the task time and due to these variations there always remains a possibility that completion time of tasks might exceed the predefined cycle time. To hedge against thi...

Certain types of manufacturing processes can be modelled by assembly line balancing problems. In this work we deal with a specific assembly line balancing problem that is know as the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem (ALWABP). This problem appears in settings where tasks must be assigned to workers, and workers to work stations. Task processing times are worker specific, and...

This article focuses on the Mixed-Model Assembly Line Balancing single-target problem of type 2 with single-sided linear assembly line configurations, which is common in industrial environment small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The main objective to achieve Algorithmic Transparency (AT) when using Genetic Algorithms for resolution balancing operation times. done by means a new matrix me...

A wide variety of combinatorial optimization problems have been studied in recent years Of particular interest are a class of optimization problems arising from the manufacturing of vehicles on assembly lines These problems consist of sequencing the vehicles that are going to be produced such that their production is done in an e cient cost e ective manner In this thesis we introduce a real wor...

In this paper we consider the optimal sequencing of vehicles along multiple assembly lines We present a constraint based model of the problem with hard and soft constraints An advantage of a constraint based approach is that the model is declarative and there is a separation between the model and an algorithm for solving the model As a result once the model had been de ned we could experiment w...