Assembly line systems form the backbone of modern manufacturing, and the optimisation of their balancing and sequencing is critical to achieving enhanced productivity, reduced costs, and improved ...

Although progressive assembly has been practiced for fifty years in American industry, most of the basic problems associated with the system have, through the years, received little analytical ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper examines the effect of stochastic task times on the total operating costs of a continuously paced assembly line under the ...