Abstract The collaborative robots (cobots) are increasingly being utilized in industries due to the advancement field of robotic technology and also increase labor costs. cobots on assembly line can be complete tasks independently or assist workers tasks. This study considers U-shaped balancing problem with cobots, where several different purchasing costs selected under budget constraint. Three...

Assignment of worker appears as a new problem in the literature for assembly lines (AL) where workforce is heterogeneously located. The difference this line balancing from traditional that task times workers to be assigned stations differ each other. Especially such assignment and balancing, are generally labor-intensive type production. Therefore, while kind lines, it should done considering l...

This paper deals with the assembly line balancing problem with incompatibilities between tasks with two hierarchical objectives: minimising the number of stations, and once these are fixed, minimising the cycle time. It is solved through CPLEX optimiser software, in which we have introduced a bounding procedure and an exploration strategy based on greedy heuristic priority rules.