To relieve congested city centers, cargo tunnels are a recently revitalized last-mile delivery concept that is currently evaluated in various capability studies in different parts …
Efficient configurations of assembly lines involve balancing the workload across stations and strongly depend on the sequence in which the products are processed. While these …
Assembly lines are widely used mass production techniques applied in various industries from electronics to automotive and aerospace. A branch, bound, and remember (BBR) algorithm …
Assembly lines are the standard choice for the manufacturing of large products and must combine efficiency with flexibility. Since multiple product variants are assembled on the …
Mixed-model assembly lines are state of the art in automotive production systems. Because of the high number of customizable options which can be ordered in a vehicle, there is a …
In recent years, human workers in manual assembly lines are increasingly being supported by the deployment of complementary technology. Collaborative robots (or cobots) represent a …
The assembly line balancing problem (ALBP) assigns tasks to (work)stations to manufacture products. It divides the station loads as evenly as possible since any bottleneck defines …
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 …
Unpredictable crises such as pandemics, as well as predictable oscillations such as seasonality, can produce significant demand fluctuations. Although it is possible to adapt the …
Asynchronous assembly lines are productive layouts in which products move sequentially between stations when processing at current station is complete, and the following station is …