A Heuristic Approach to General Assembly Line Balancing

Abstract

A method for balancing a single‐model assembly line is described which incorporates various constraining features such as fixed position, positive and negative zoning, multiple parallel stations, etc. It can easily be extended for multiple manning of stations. First a priority list of the elements is formed. For each element, its elemental time is added to those of its total number of successors. The list is then rearranged in non‐increasing order. The method has been tested by solving a large number of randomly generated problems. A computer program has been developed for the generalised method.

Citation

Bhattacharjee, T.K. and Sahu, S. (1988), "A Heuristic Approach to General Assembly Line Balancing", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 8 No. 6, pp. 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054843