Assembly Line Balancing - Year-Wise Bibliography

Recent Years

2019

Lean Assembly Line Layout Do’s and Don’ts
May 9, 2019

A lean-based layout differs from traditional line layout. One difference is that lean layouts often use  andon systems or problem display systems to broadcast  issues such as production status, quality checks and abnormalities.

Lean layout development considers and interacts with product and process planning (3P) methodologies.

Layout is part of  production preparation. Layouts are  designed for individual workcells and the entire plant.

Lean layout project should address the following criteria:

Enable material flow to and from the line.
Allow people to interface easily and quickly in a flexible environment.
Preference is given to versatile  equipment.
Make it easy to change over.
Minimize wasted motion.
Separate people and machines. Use automation as much as possible and reduce manual content as much as possible in operating the machine.
Enable the use of pull systems. Set up information system that facilitates pull system. Operator picks up a job that his customer demands.
http://pessolutions.com/lean-assembly-line-layout-dos-and-donts/



1954

Bryton, B., (1954), Balancing of a continuous
production line. M.Sc. Thesis, North-Western
University.


1955

Salveson, M.E., "The Assembly Line Balancing Problem," Journal of Industrial Engineering, Ma-June 1955.

1956

Jackson, James R., "A Computing Procedure for a Line Balancing Problem," Management Science, April, 1956.

1961


Kilbridge,M., and L. Wester, "A Heuristic Method of Assembly Line Balancing," Journal of Industrial Engineering, July August, 1961.


Tonge, Fred M., A Heuristic Program for Assembly Line Balancing, Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1961.

1986

Ilker Baybars, "A SURVEY OF EXACT ALGORITHMS FOR THE SIMPLE ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING PROBLEM," Management Science, August 1986.


1994

A. Bolat, M. Savsar, and M. A. Al-Fawzan. Algorithms for real-time scheduling of jobs on mixed model assembly lines. Computers & Operations Research, 21(5):487 –498, 1994.

A. Bolat. Sequencing jobs on an automobile assembly line: objectives and procedures. International Journal of Production Research, 32(5):1219–1236, 1994.

1995

Boctor, F., (1995), A multiple-rule heuristic for
assembly line balancing. Journal of the
Operational Research Society, 46, 62-69.


1998

Pinnoi, A.; Wilhelm, W. E., (1998), Assembly system design: A branch and cut approach. Management Science, 44, 103-118.

Erdal Erel , Subhash C. Sarin,  "A survey of the assembly line balancing procedures,"
Production Planning & Control
Vol. 9, Iss. 5, 1998



McMullen, P. R.; Frazier, G. V., (1998), Using simulated annealing to solve a multi objective assembly line balancing problem with parallel workstations. International Journal of Production Research, 36(10), 2717-2741.

1999


A. Balakrishnan and F. Vanderbeck. A tactical planning model for mixed-model electronics assembly operations. Operations Research, 47(3):395–409, 1999.


Scholl, A., (1999), Balancing and sequencing of assembly lines. Second Edition, Physica-verlag
Heidelberg.


2000

M. Amen. An exact method for cost-oriented assembly line balancing. International Journal of Production Economics, 64(1-3):187–195, 2000.
M. Amen. Heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing: A survey. International Journal of Production Economics, 68(1):1–14, 2000.

2001

Amen, M., (2001), Heuristic methods for cost-oriented assembly line balancing: A comparison
on solution quality and computing time. International Journal of Production Economic, 69(3), 255-264.

2006


M. Amen. Cost-oriented assembly line balancing: Model formulations, solution difficulty, upper and lower bounds. European Journal of Operational Research, 168 (3):747–770, 2006.

Bukchin, Y.; Rabinowitch, I., (2006), A branchand-bound based solution approach for the
mixed-model assembly line-balancing problem form minimizing stations and task duplication
costs. European Journal of Operational Research, 174, 492-508.

Peeters, A., (2006), Linear programming based lower bound for the simple assembly line
balancing problem. European Journal of Operations Research, 168(3), 716-731.

Scholl, A.; Becker, C., (2006), State-of-the-art exact and heuristic solution procedures for simple
assembly line balancing. European Journal of Operational Research, 168(3), 666-693.

Becker, C.; Scholl, A., (2006), A survey on problems and methods in generalized assembly
line balancing. European Journal of Operational Research, 168(3), 694-715.


2007
Boysen, N.; Fliedner, M.; Scholl, A., (2007), A classification of assembly line balancing problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 183(2), 674-693.


2011

S. Barutcuoglu and M. Azizoglu. Flexible assembly line design problem with fixed number of workstations. International Journal of Production Research, 49(12):3691–3714, 2011.


2013

O. Battaia and A. Dolgui. A taxonomy of line balancing problems and their solution approaches. International Journal of Production Economics, 142(2):259 – 277, 2013.



2014




Mariona Vilà and , Jordi Pereira, "A branch-and-bound algorithm for assembly line worker assignment
and balancing problems" Computers & Operations Research 44 (2014) 105–114


Updated on 5 June 2019, 7 June 2015