Optimising Production Systems With a Heterogeneous Workforce

Improved integer programming models for simple assembly line balancing and related problems

Marcus Ritt, Alysson M Costa

2018-07-01

We propose a stronger formulation of the precedence constraints and the station limits for the simple assembly line balancing prob..

The assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem with stochastic worker availability

M Ritt, AM Costa, C Miralles

2016-02-01

Assembly lines can be employed successfully in sheltered work centres to better include persons with disabilities in the labour ma..

Robust assembly line balancing with heterogeneous workers

MCO Moreira, JF Cordeau, AM Costa, G Laporte

2015-08-01

Assembly lines are manufacturing systems in which a product is assembled progressively in workstations by different workers or mac..

Balancing parallel assembly lines with disabled workers

FFB Araújo, AM Costa, C Miralles

2015-01-01

In this paper, we study an assembly line balancing problem that occurs in sheltered worker centres for the disabled, where workers..