Multi-manned assembly line balancing problem with balanced load density

作者：Yilmaz Hamid^*; Yilmaz Mustafa

来源：Assembly Automation, 2015, 35(1): 137-142.

DOI：10.1108/AA-05-2014-041

• Assembly line design
• Multi-manned workstation

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is balancing multi-manned assembly lines with load-balancing constraints in addition to conventional ones Most research works about the multi-manned assembly line balancing problems are focused on the conventional industrial measures that minimize total number of workers, number of multi-manned workstations or both.
Design/methodology/approach - This paper provides a remedial constraint for the model to balance task load density for each worker in workstations.
Findings - Comparisons between the proposed mathematical model and the existing multi-manned mathematical model show a quite promising better task load density performance for the proposed approach.
Originality/value - In this paper, a mathematical model that combines the minimization of multi-manned stations, worker numbers and difference of task load density of workers is proposed for the first time.

• 出版日期2015