“…Since then, different approaches have been proposed to enrich line balance analyses, and many attempts have been made to reduce the wide gap between the academic discussion and the realistic situation". In 2018, during a bibliometric study carried out on the Web of Science by Zheng, Zhou, and Chen (2019), it was found that, until that date, there had been more than 2476 published research results aimed at optimizing production flows. These studies (Kucukkoc, Li, Karaoglan, & Zhang, 2018;Tanhaie, Rabbani, & Manavizadeh, 2020) generally seek to optimize the use of installed capacities, increase productivity, reduce cycle time , reduce the number of jobs, reduce energy consumption, reduce environmental pollution (Kalayci & Gupta, 2013), and reduce the learning cost curve (Wu, Dai, & Luo, 2018).…”