G. Suresh et S. Sahu, STOCHASTIC ASSEMBLY-LINE BALANCING USING SIMULATED ANNEALING, International Journal of Production Research, 32(8), 1994, pp. 1801-1810
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The problem of balancing assembly lines with stochastic task processin
g times is addressed. The size of the problems that can be solved by o
ptimal methods is limited and hence many heuristics have been develope
d, which give sub-optimal solutions. An approach for solving the probl
em using the simulated annealing technique is presented here. The prop
osed approach tries to reach the global optimum by not getting trapped
at the different local optimum points. Another feature of this method
is the non-dependence of the final solution on the initial solution.
Solutions for line balancing problems obtained using the above method
compare favourably with the results of other greedy heuristics.