Assembly line balancing is the problem of assigning tasks to workstations by optimizing a performance measure while satisfying precedence relations between tasks and cycle time restrictions. Many exact, heuristic and metaheuristic approaches have been proposed for solving simple straight and U-shaped assembly line balancing problems. In this study, a quite new optimization algorithm, Bacterial ...

Balancing loss is the quantification of the lack of balance in a production line, defined as the percentage of time not used for productive purposes with the total time invested in making a product. The importance of this measure lies in its ability to assess perhaps the most problematic of all the detailed design decisions in product layout, namely that of line balanc ing . Achieving a perfect...