1 Introduction</h5> An assembly line is a production system most commonly used in the flow-line production of goods on an industrial scale. It consists of m workstations connected by a conveyor belt or similar mechanical device. As unfinished products travel from station to station, certain operations are performed to obtain the final product. The indivisible operations necessary to finish a product are known as tasks j = 1, … , n and require a fixed operation time t j to be completed.</P>The conveyor belt speed determines the output rate and the time in which each task must be completed before moving on to the next station. The available time is the same for every station and is referred to as cycle time c . The total operation time of the tasks assigned to each station can never exceed the cycle time.</P>Additionally, some tasks may not be able to start until another task has been completed. These precedence constraints must be fulfilled (i.e., if any task i assigned to station k precedes a task j assigned to station h , then h ⩾ k must hold).</P>The simple assembly line balancing problem type 1 (SALBP-1) consists of assigning each task
European Journal of Operational Research – Elsevier
Published: Aug 16, 2013
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