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Assembly line balancing techniques: literature review of deterministic and stochastic methodologies

  • a Giuseppina Belfiore , 
  • b Domenico Falcone ,
  • c Luca Silvestri 
  • a,b Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
  • c Niccolò Cusano University, 00166 Roma (RM) – Italy
Cite as
Belfiore G., Falcone D., Silvestri L. (2018). Assembly line balancing techniques: literature review of deterministic and stochastic methodologies. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Modeling & Applied Simulation (MAS 2018), pp. 185-190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2018.mas.028

Abstract

A production line consists of a sequence of work stations where the operations, necessary to create a product unit, are carried out. Therefore, the design of a production line is linked to the search of the smallest number of stations to be activated in order to obtain advantages in terms of costs, time and resources. The literature review carried out in the following research was organized according to the nature of task times (deterministic and stochastic), concerning to heuristic and metaheuristic techniques.

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