[HTML][HTML] Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?

N Boysen, P Schulze, A Scholl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Ever since the times of Henry Ford up to today's industry 4.0 era, flow-oriented assembly
processes, where an assembly line conveys the workpieces from workstation to workstation …

Hybridizations in line balancing problems: A comprehensive review on new trends and formulations

O Battaïa, A Dolgui - International Journal of Production Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …

Balancing of assembly lines with collaborative robots

C Weckenborg, K Kieckhäfer, C Müller, M Grunewald… - Business …, 2020 - Springer
Motivated by recent developments to deploy collaborative robots in industrial production
systems, we investigate the assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots. The …

Industry 4.0 and prospects of circular economy: a survey of robotic assembly and disassembly

M Daneshmand, F Noroozi, C Corneanu… - … International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Despite their contributions to the financial efficiency and environmental sustainability of
industrial processes, robotic assembly and disassembly have been understudied in the …

Improving the thermophysical properties of hybrid nanocellulose-copper (II) oxide (CNC-CuO) as a lubricant additives: A novel nanolubricant for tribology application

MK Kamarulzaman, S Hisham, K Kadirgama… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
The primary objective of the present analysis is to investigate the thermophysical properties
of hybrid nanocellulose and copper (II) oxide nanoparticles added to engine oil as a …

A survey of the parallel assembly lines balancing problem

H Aguilar, A García-Villoria, R Pastor - Computers & Operations Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Assembly lines are mass production systems which are significant in the industrial
production of both standard and customised products. Currently, industrial companies offer …

Modelling and solving mixed-model two-sided assembly line balancing problem with sequence-dependent setup time

W Yang, W Cheng - International Journal of Production Research, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Two-sided assembly lines balancing problem has been extensively studied in recent years.
However, only limited attention has been paid to balancing mixed-model two-sided …

Solving the energy-efficient robotic mixed-model assembly line balancing problem using a memory-based Cuckoo Search Algorithm

L Belkharroubi, K Yahyaoui - Engineering applications of artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Minimizing energy consumption is an important issue in robotic assembly lines where a set
of robots are assigned to a set of workstations to perform different tasks. When it is planned …

A genetic algorithm for heterogenous human-robot collaboration assembly line balancing problems

A Nourmohammadi, M Fathi, AHC Ng, E Mahmoodi - Procedia CiRP, 2022 - Elsevier
Originated by a real-world case study from the automotive industry, this paper attempts to
address the assembly lines balancing problem with human-robot collaboration and …

Multi-period bin packing model and effective constructive heuristics for corridor-based logistics capacity planning

TG Crainic, FD Fomeni, W Rei - Computers & Operations Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The bin packing problem is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization problem. This
paper proposes two novel bin packing problem settings with many practical applications, in …