A review on assembly sequence planning and assembly line balancing optimisation using soft computing approaches

Assembly line balancing to minimize balancing loss and system loss

Assembly Line production is one of the widely used basic principles in production system. The problem of Assembly Line Balancing deals with the distribution of activities among the workstations so that there will be maximum utilization of human resources and facilities without disturbing the work sequence. Research works reported in the literature mainly deals with minimization of idle time i.e...

Supply chain optimisation with assembly line balancing

Mixed Model Assembly Line Balancing and Assembly Sequence Selection

Mixed-model assembly line (MMAL) is a type of production line where a variety of product models similar to product characteristics are assembled. Line balancing and model sequencing problems are important for an efficient use of such lines. This paper presents integer programming formulation and a solution for a loading and assembly plan selection problem in a mixed-model assembly system. The p...

Soft Computing in Optimizing Assembly Lines Balancing

As part of manufacturing systems, the assembly line has become one of the most valuable researches to accomplish the real world problems related to them. Many efforts have been made to seek the best techniques in optimizing assembly lines. Problem statement: Since it was published by Salveson in 1955, some methods and techniques have been developed based on mathematical modeling. In recent year...

‘BALANCING AND SEQUENCING’ VERSUS ‘ONLY BALANCING’ IN MIXED MODEL U-LINE ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

With the growth in customers’ demand diversification, mixed-model U-lines (MMUL) have acquired increasing importance in the area of assembly systems. There are generally two different approaches in the literature for balancing such systems. Some researchers believe that since the types of models can be very diverse, a balancing approach without simultaneously sequencing of models will not yield...