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 …

The occurrence and characteristics of human learning and forgetting are extensively
researched in many fields. Thus, the literature on learning curves is abundant. Within …

Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has been extensively considered; however,
multiobjective FJSP with energy consumption threshold is seldom investigated, the goal of …

Mass production system design is a key for the productivity of an organization. Mass
production system can be classified into production line machining a component and …

Assembly line balancing problems (ALBP) have plagued scholars and practitioners for
decades. This paper investigates a new assembly system called flexible assembly line (FAL) …

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 …

Ergonomic aspects have a crucial role in manual assembly systems. They impact on the
workers' health, final product quality and productivity. For these reasons, there is the …

Considering the circumstances of supply disruption and government subsidy, optimal
recovery and production strategies for the closed-loop supply chain are investigated. It is …

This paper presents a comprehensive review and evaluation of heuristics and meta-
heuristics for the two-sided assembly line balancing problem. Though a few reviews have …