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 …

In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …

Assembly line balancing problems (ALBP) have plagued scholars and practitioners for
decades. This paper investigates a new assembly system called flexible assembly line (FAL) …

Workforce assignment and energy consumption impact greatly on the manufacturing
performance. In this work, we study a multi-skilled worker assignment and assembly line …

Exact methods have shown advanced and promising performance in solving the simple
assembly line balancing problem, known as NP-hard. This research investigates the impact …

Some of the most influential management concepts have their origin in the organization of
assembly systems: from Henry Ford's assembly lines and the concept of mass production, to …

This study presents an enhanced iterative branch, bound and remember (IBBRe) algorithm
as an exact method and an enhanced iterative beam search (IBSe) approach as a heuristic …

Contemporary assembly line systems are characterized by an increasing capability to offer
each client a different product, more tuned to her needs and preferences. These assembly …

Due to mass customization and extensive market changes, manufacturing companies seek
to enhance the flexibility and reconfigurablility of their assembly lines. For instance, to adjust …

Considering preventive maintenance (PM) scenarios in the assembly line balancing
problem (ALBP) have been proved effective and can be used to increase production …