Assembly line balancing (ALB) aims at distributing those work required to assemble a product in mass or series production among a set of workstations in an assembly line. Heuristics approaches, in corporation with computer simulation, have demonstrated a number of advantages in practice. In this paper a technique has been presented for the hybridization of the heuristic for the assembly line ba...

Abstract Assembly lines with fractional tasks increase the throughput a better workload balancing among stations. The possibility to share between two consecutive stations can also support design of assembly redundancies tasks. redundancy allows reacting short failures or variations in processing time. This paper proposes framework and control lines. first problem concerns modified mixed-intege...

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Although the simple assembly line balancing problem (SALBP) is the topic of many studies, typically they either consider minimizing the number of stations for a given cycle time (called type one), or minimizing the cycle time for a given number of stations (called type two). Rarely, type E of the problem has been considered. In the type E, cycle time and number of stations are both decision var...