[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 collaborative human–robot assembly lines to optimise cycle time and ergonomic risk

KE Stecke, M Mokhtarzadeh - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Human–robot collaboration can enhance productivity of production lines and reduce human
ergonomic risk. The numbers and types of robots and stations in which robots are allocated …

Solving human-robot collaborative mixed-model two-sided assembly line balancing using multi-objective discrete artificial bee colony algorithm

Y Huang, B Sheng, R Luo, Y Lu, G Fu, X Yin - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is an emerging technology that aims to optimize
production efficiency and reduce ergonomic risks by enabling humans and collaborative …

Balancing of assembly lines with collaborative robots: comparing approaches of the Benders' decomposition algorithm

CGS Sikora, C Weckenborg - International Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, human workers in manual assembly lines are increasingly being supported
by the deployment of complementary technology. Collaborative robots (or cobots) represent …

Robust assembly line balancing problem considering preventive maintenance scenarios with interval processing time

K Meng, Q Tang, Z Zhang - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2022 - Elsevier
Considering preventive maintenance (PM) scenarios in the assembly line balancing
problem (ALBP) have been proved effective and can be used to increase production …

Mixed-model assembly line balancing problem considering preventive maintenance scenarios: MILP model and cooperative co-evolutionary algorithm

K Meng, Q Tang, L Cheng, Z Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Considering preventive maintenance (PM) scenarios in assembly line balancing (ALB)
problem has been proven to be an effective way to promote line efficiency. However …

Benders' decomposition based exact solution method for multi-manned assembly line balancing problem with walking workers

M Şahin, T Kellegöz - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
This article considers multi-manned assembly line balancing problems with walking
workers. The objective of the problem is the minimization of number of workers and …

A Pareto-based hybrid genetic simulated annealing algorithm for multi-objective hybrid production line balancing problem considering disassembly and assembly

X Sun, S Guo, J Guo, B Du, Z Yang… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Most existing studies about line balancing problems mainly focus on disassembly and
assembly separately, which rarely integrate these two modes into a system. However, as …

A genetic algorithm for balancing and sequencing of mixed-model two-sided assembly line with unpaced synchronous transfer

SG Liao, YB Zhang, CY Sang, H Liu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on the assembly line balancing problem has been continuously incorporated the
characteristics of actual production lines without considering the mixed-model two-sided …