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 ...

We analyze the asymptotic worst-case performance ratio of polynomial time heuristics for the assembly line balancing problem. Assuming that P≠ NP, we show that no polynomial heuristic has worst-case ...