Ever since the times of Henry Ford up to today's industry 4.0 era, flow-oriented assembly
processes, where an assembly line conveys the workpieces from workstation to workstation …

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

In this paper, we advise to perform assembly line balancing simultaneously with decision-
making on parts feeding. Such integrated planning may open additional potential to reduce …

Virtual machine placement (VMP) and power management are essential topics in the
development of cloud computing and data centers. The assignment of a virtual machine to …

In order to minimize costs, manufacturing companies have been relying on assembly lines
for the mass production of commodity goods. Among other issues, the successful operation …

In robotic assembly lines, the task times depend on the robots assigned to each station.
Robots are considered an unlimited resource and multiple robots of the same type can be …

For combinatorial optimization problems, model-based approaches such as mixed-integer
programming (MIP) and constraint programming (CP) aim to decouple modeling and solving …

The quality of the balancing of mixed-model assembly lines is intimately related to the
defined production sequence. The two problems are, however, incompatible in time, as …

Parallel assembly lines are special flow type production systems where two or more
neighbouring assembly lines are balanced together. In some industries such as automobile …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to first investigate the efficiency of the most commonly
used performance measures for minimizing the number of workstations (NWs) in …