[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 …

A digital twin-driven human-robot collaborative assembly approach in the wake of COVID-19

Q Lv, R Zhang, X Sun, Y Lu, J Bao - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
In the wake of COVID-19, the production demand of medical equipment is increasing
rapidly. This type of products is mainly assembled by hand or fixed program with complex …

[HTML][HTML] Balancing assembly lines with industrial and collaborative robots: Current trends and future research directions

M Fathi, A Sepehri, M Ghobakhloo… - Computers & industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Assembly-line balancing is a significant issue in production systems. Employing industrial
robots as the main production resource was a milestone in develo** assembly lines, and …

[HTML][HTML] A review of optimization models and applications in robotic manufacturing systems: Industry 4.0 and beyond

B Vaisi - Decision analytics journal, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review paper, recent developments in robotic problems are cited. A robotic
manufacturing system includes at least a robot-as a material handling device-, a co-worker …

Multi-objective migrating bird optimization algorithm for cost-oriented assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots

Z Li, MN Janardhanan, Q Tang - Neural Computing and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Industries are increasingly looking for opportunities at utilizing collaborative robots in
assembly lines to perform the tasks independently or assist the human workers due to the …

An enhanced version of black hole algorithm via levy flight for optimization and data clustering problems

HA Abdulwahab, A Noraziah, AA Alsewari… - Ieee …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The processes of retrieving useful information from a dataset are an important data mining
technique that is commonly applied, known as Data Clustering. Recently, nature-inspired …

A comprehensive review of robotic assembly line balancing problem

P Chutima - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2022 - Springer
The research on the robotic assembly line balancing problem (RALBP) was originated for
the first time nearly three decades ago. This problem is under the umbrella of the assembly …

Human-Robot Collaboration in Mixed-Flow Assembly Line Balancing under Uncertainty: An Efficient Discrete Bees Algorithm

X Zhang, AM Fathollahi-Fard, G Tian… - Journal of Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the evolving landscape of manufacturing and remanufacturing, assembly lines play a
crucial role. Within the context of Industry 5.0, human workers are seen as a valuable and …

[HTML][HTML] Robotic disassembly line balancing problem: A mathematical model and ant colony optimization approach

ZA Çil, S Mete, F Serin - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of robots is significantly increasing day by day in manufacturing systems, and
especially improving the efficiency of the lines. Robots can be used to complete disassembly …