[HTML][HTML] Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?

N Boysen, P Schulze, A Scholl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Hybridizations in line balancing problems: A comprehensive review on new trends and formulations

O Battaïa, A Dolgui - International Journal of Production Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
In the research on production economics, line balancing is an intensively studied
combinatorial optimisation problem. In our previous comprehensive survey on line …

Sustainable tire closed-loop supply chain network design: Hybrid metaheuristic algorithms for large-scale networks

N Sahebjamnia, AM Fathollahi-Fard… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Growing environmental concerns and social legislations enforce decision makers to design
their supply chains considering environmental and social impacts as well as economical …

A green home health care supply chain: New modified simulated annealing algorithms

AM Fathollahi-Fard, K Govindan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Generally, in Home Health Care (HHC) logistics, caregivers which are started from
a pharmacy are scheduled and routed to do different care services at patients' home. At the …

Balancing of assembly lines with collaborative robots

C Weckenborg, K Kieckhäfer, C Müller, M Grunewald… - Business …, 2020 - Springer
Motivated by recent developments to deploy collaborative robots in industrial production
systems, we investigate the assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots. The …

Assembly systems in Industry 4.0 era: a road map to understand Assembly 4.0

Y Cohen, H Naseraldin, A Chaudhuri… - The International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
The 4th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0, I4. 0) is based upon the penetration of many new
technologies to the industrial world. These technologies are posed to fundamentally change …

A bi-objective green home health care routing problem

AM Fathollahi-Fard, M Hajiaghaei-Keshteli… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) is generally defined and considered as a set of nurses
serving the patients at home by providing the required drugs and other HHC services (eg …

Minimizing energy consumption in multi-objective two-sided disassembly line balancing problem with complex execution constraints using dual-individual simulated …

J Liang, S Guo, B Du, Y Li, J Guo, Z Yang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing number of large-scale end-of-life products, such as vehicles and refrigerators
have paid a negative impact on the ecological environment and led to the waste of non …

A systematic review of research themes and hot topics in assembly line balancing through the web of science within 1990–2017

M Eghtesadifard, M Khalifeh, M Khorram - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Assembly line balancing (ALB) deals with how tasks are assigned in an assembly line to
reach the required production rate and to optimize goals. Tasks in assembly line are …

[HTML][HTML] Metaheuristic algorithms for balancing robotic assembly lines with sequence-dependent robot setup times

MN Janardhanan, Z Li, G Bocewicz, Z Banaszak… - Applied Mathematical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Industries are incorporating robots into assembly lines due to their greater flexibility and
reduced costs. Most of the reported studies did not consider scheduling of tasks or the …