The automotive industry continuously seeks to enhance efficiency and reduce costs through the optimisation of assembly line operations. Recent advancements focus on the integration of assembly line ...

Consider the classical online scheduling problem, in which jobs that arrive one by one are assigned to identical parallel machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan. We generalize this ...

In this paper we introduce two general techniques for the design and analysis of approximation algorithms for NP-hard scheduling problems in which the objective is to minimize the weighted sum of the ...

An assembly line is a manufacturing process in which interchangeable parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create an end product. In most cases, a manufacturing assembly line is a ...

Companies choose manufacturing processes -- such as job order, batch process, assembly line and continuous process -- based in part on the level of product individualization allowed. Manufacturers use ...