Products such as cars, trucks, and heavy machinery are assembled by two-sided assembly line. Assembly line balancing has significant impacts on the performance and productivity of flow line manufacturing systems and is an active research area for several decades. This paper addresses the line balancing problem of a two-sided assembly line in which the tasks are to be assigned at L side or R sid...

Assembly lines are one of the most frequently used flow oriented production systems in industry. Although only a few researchers have studied them, two-sided assembly lines are usually utilised to produce high-volume large-sized products such as trucks and buses. In this study, more than one two-sided assembly line constructed in parallel are balanced simultaneously using a newly developed ant ...

In the complex and ever-changing manufacturing environment, maintaining long-term steady efficient work of assembly line is ultimate goal pursued by relevant enterprises, foundation which a balanced load. Therefore, this paper carries out research on two-sided balance problem (TALBP) for load balancing. At first, mathematical programming model established with objectives optimizing efficiency, ...

Worker assignment is a new type of problem in assembly line balancing problems, which typically occurs in sheltered work centers for the disabled. However, only a few contributions consider worker assignment in a two-sided assembly line. This research presents three variants of artificial bee colony algorithm to solve worker assignment and line balancing in two-sided assembly lines. The utiliza...

In this paper we are to present a practical application of Axiomatic Design (AD) methodology, as a roadmap to lean production, in redesigning a car body assembly line. Axiomatic Design theory provides a framework to simplify the whole problem. According to the AD principles, a hierarchical structure has been developed. The developed structure originated in lean manufacturing principles and exis...