In a production facility there may be more than one straight assembly line located in parallel.
Balancing of parallel assembly lines will provide the flexibility to minimize the total number of
workstations due to common resource. This type of problem is called as parallel assembly
line balancing (PALB) problem. In this paper, a tabu search based approach is proposed for
PALB problem with aim of maximizing line efficiency (LE)(or minimizing number of stations)
and minimizing variation of workloads (V). This study is based on the study of Gokcen et …