This study focusses on a two objective type-2 simple assembly line balancing problem. Its primary is minimizing the cycle time, or equivalently, maximizing production rate of line. Minimization workload imbalance among workstations considered as secondary objective. Since problem known to be intractable, reactive tabu search algorithm proposed for solution. Although well-known meta-heuristic pr...

The gradient method is a very efficient iterative technique for solving unconstrained optimization problems. Motivated by recent modifications of some variants the SM method, this study proposed two methods that are globally convergent as well computationally efficient. Each under influence backtracking line search. Results obtained from numerical implementation these and performance profiling ...