Assembly line balancing as generalized bin packing

  • Authors:
  • T. S. Wee;M. J. Magazine

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Engineering, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada;Faculty of Engineering, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Bin packing heuristics are generalized and adapted to solve the assembly line balancing problem. Worst-case analysis is provided. The results are compared to those for a resource constrained scheduling problem considered by Garey, Graham, Johnson and Yao.