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

New aerospace product developments need to be done following economic and
environmental drivers like costs reduction, secure a short time-to-market, reduce total carbon …

In the context of Industry 4.0, the matrix production concept represents revolutionary
solutions from a technological and logistics point of view. In a matrix production system …

The assembly line process planning connects product design and manufacturing through
translating design information to assembly integration sequence. The assembly integration …

This paper investigates the productivity prediction for aircraft final assembly lines. Various
approaches are proposed and the performance of each approach is compared and …

With the ever-increasing product variety faced by the manufacturing industry, investment
efficiency can only be maintained by the application of multi-product assembly systems. In …

Composite parts have been increasingly used in aircraft industry because of their high
strength-to-weight ratio and stiffness-to-weight ratio. Due to the diversity of suppliers and …

In recent years, the air transport market has experienced strong growth, increasing the
demand for new civil aircraft, challenging the actual production rate of aerospace industries …

To enhance multidisciplinary design and simulation of complex systems, MBSE (Model
Based Systems Engineering) is a methodology where computer aided graphical modeling …

In this paper, a production planning problem for mixed-model assembly lines in low-volume
manufacturing as can be found in aircraft manufacturing is considered. This type of …