Assembly lines are special flow-line production systems which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quantity standardized commodities. Recently, assembly lines even gained importance in low volume production of customized products (mass-customization). Due to high capital requirements when installing or redesigning a line, its configuration planning is of great relevance ...

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 ...

This paper focuses on production systems that consist of multiple parallel assembly lines. The main literature contributions are briefly described and used to present a summary of the state of the art. The advantages and disadvantages of adopting multiple lines are discussed and the multiple assembly line balancing problem and its relevant characteristics are

Line balancing means balancing the production line, or any assembly line. The main objective of line balancing is to distribute the task over the each work station so that idle time of labor of machine can be minimized. Line balancing aims at grouping the resources or labor in an efficient and best pattern in order to obtain an optimum or proper balance of the resources and flows of the product...

This paper presents a real-world industrial application of the multi-product and multi-objective scheduling and assembly line balancing problem, for a company involved in the production of four models of a product. Two objectives are considered: production rate maximization and minimization the dispersion of worker tasks on each one of the different models. An integrated approach for the schedu...