A survey on problems and methods in generalized assembly line balancing

Becker, Christian; Schöll, Armin

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2004.07.023

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“…Some general surveys and reviews (Ghosh and Gagnon, 1989;Erel and Sarin, 1998;Rekiek et al, 2002;Scholl and Becker 2006;Becker and Scholl, 2006;Boysen et al, 2006) discuss the possibility of using parallel lines, but they provide few references. In this section, studies that address some of the problems encountered in the parallelization of assembly lines are presented in chronological order, and comments are provided.…”

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“…-They reduce failure sensitivity (Rekiek et al, 2002;Becker and Scholl, 2006;Chiang et al, 2007): because there is more than one assembly line, production is not interrupted when one of the lines breaks down (the others keep working).…”

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“…Furthermore, having a system with parallel stations reduces failure sensitivity and, also, it often allows for better balances. Of course, as in the case of parallel lines, having parallel stations causes additional fixed costs that must be considered (readers are referred to Becker and Scholl, 2006, for more details on parallel stations).…”

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“…However, the problem in which two or more assembly lines (parallel or multiple lines) may be present has not been widely studied as yet. This type of system has a higher equipment cost (Daganzo and Blumenfeld, 1994) but is both more reliable and more flexible (Rekiek et al, 2002;Becker and Scholl, 2006;Chiang et al, 2007) and allows for better balances, reducing the total number of required stations (Chiang et al, 2007). It also increases productivity (Chakravarty and Shtub, 1988;Boysen et al, 2006;Chiang et al, 2007), worker satisfaction and product quality (Ellegard and Jonsson, 1992).…”

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“…The most common objectives of the GALBP are to minimize the overall cost of the assembly line and to maximize profit. A detailed discussion of the costs that should be considered in assembly line balancing problems can be found in Amen (2000 and2006) and in the survey on GALBP carried out by Becker and Scholl (2006). Furthermore, the use of more realistic problems with characteristics that were not previously considered has given rise to a new classification system for assembly line balancing problems (Boysen et al, 2006).…”

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Service availability is an important issue in optical networks. Much research attention has been drawn to the provisioning of reliable connections achieved by approaches such as routing and wavelength assignment and by protection and restoration mechanisms. In contrast, the research on upgrading networks to meet new or dynamic demands of service availability based on network upgrading process has been comparatively lacking. In this paper, we address this issue by upgrading service availability from the perspective of labor forces for network maintenance. Our approach is premised on the assumption that the time period for fixing an optical link can be reduced by using more network resources of labor forces. To model this concept, we conduct Amdahl's law, a well-known theorem in parallel computing, to describe human teamwork. To show the effectiveness of this concept, we propose mixed integer linear programming aiming at either maximizing service availability under limited labor forces or minimizing labor forces for predetermined service availability. In addition, a heuristic algorithm for upgrading service availability is presented.Our experimental results show that our network upgrading process can improve service availability optimally with a fixed number of forces and the proposed heuristic algorithm can effectively save computation time.

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A survey on problems and methods in generalized assembly line balancing

Cited by 824 publications

References 140 publications

A survey of the literature on the multiple or parallel assembly line balancing problem

A survey of the literature on the multiple or parallel assembly line balancing problem

Solving the Mixed‐model Assembly Line Balancing Problem by using a Hybrid Reactive Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure

Upgrading service availability of optical networks: A labor force perspective

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