Sustainable production includes economic, environmental, and social aspects. However,
social sustainability has received less attention, especially compared to the economic …

This paper addresses the problem of scheduling a set of jobs with tool requirements on
identical parallel machines in a work center. This problem considers the following …

Optimization of thermal conductivity (TC) and viscosity of Al 2 O 3-MWCNT/thermal oil hybrid
nanofluid with NSGA-II and RSM was investigated. Effect of temperature and volume fraction …

Balancing and sequencing are two important challenging problems in designing mixed-
model assembly lines. A large number of studies have addressed these two problems both …

Since the industrial robots are incrementally utilized in U-shaped assembly lines to replace
operators, the focus of these lines is not only on productivity improvement, but also more on …

U-shaped assembly lines have been popularly adopted in electronics and appliances to
improve their flexibility and efficiency. However, most past studies assumed that the …

Product family design utilizes platform-based modularity to enable product variety and
efficient mass-production. While product platform issues have attracted much attention from …

Purpose This paper aims to review and discuss four aspects of mixed-model assembly line
balancing (MMALB) problem mainly on the optimization angle. MMALB is a non …

One of the most recent challenges that manufacturers confront is to respond on time to the
variety of customers' demands for different products. The Assembly line is the main element …

The mixed-model line balancing problem of a parallel U-shaped assembly line (PUAL) is
addressed in this paper. Four objectives (so-called many objectives) conflicting in nature …