Model for Assembly Line Re-Balancing Considering Additional Capacity and Outsourcing to Face Demand Fluctuations

A detailed review and analysis of assembly line rebalancing problems

“…A single product model is manufactured in single model ALs (Becker and Scholl, 2006). The AL was considered as single model in 75% of the works in ALRBP literature (Antoine et al, 2016;Belassiria et al, 2018;Celik et al, 2014;Çimen et al, 2022;Corominas et al, 2008;Fattahi and Samouei, 2016;Gamberini et al, 2006Gamberini et al, , 2009Li, 2017;Li and Boucher, 2017;Makssoud et al, 2013Makssoud et al, , 2015Mokhtari and Mozdgir, 2015;Otto and Scholl, 2011;Rahman, 2010;Samadhi and Sumihartati, 2016;Sancı and Azizo glu, 2017;Serin et al, 2019;Sikora et al, 2017;Yılmaz and Erol, 2005;Zha and Yu, 2014;Zhang et al, 2018aZhang et al, , 2018bZhang et al, , 2018c.…”

“…The rebalancing cost might occur because of the relocation of tasks, worker movements, operators training, equipment installation and moving, etc. (Altemeier et al, 2010;Celik et al, 2014;Çimen et al, 2022;Gamberini et al, 2006Gamberini et al, , 2009Lai et al, 2015;Li et al, 2021;Michels and Costa, 2021;Samadhi and Sumihartati, 2016;Serin et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2013;Yılmaz and Erol, 2005;Zha and Yu, 2014). The sixth column depicts studies that aimed at task relocation minimization.…”

“…Solution methodologies, which were used in the reviewed studies, are presented in Table 7. It can be concluded from Table 7 that some articles deal with case studies (Altemeier et al , 2010; Antoine et al , 2014, 2016; Belassiria et al , 2018; Budak and Chen, 2020; Çimen et al , 2022; Corominas et al , 2008; Gamberini et al , 2009; Grangeon et al , 2011; Lai et al , 2015; Li and Boucher, 2017; Michels and Costa, 2021; Oliveira et al , 2012; Rahman, 2010; Samadhi and Sumihartati, 2016; Sikora et al , 2017; Zhang et al , 2016, 2018b, 2020); some articles study benchmark problems (Ağpak, 2010; Belassiria et al , 2018; Celik et al , 2014; Çimen et al , 2022; Fattahi and Samouei, 2016; Girit and Azizoğlu, 2021; Hu et al , 2020; Ishigaki, 2018; Karas and Ozcelik, 2021; Li et al , 2021; Li, 2017; Michels and Costa, 2021; Mokhtari and Mozdgir, 2015; Otto and Scholl, 2011; Sancı and Azizoğlu, 2017; Serin et al , 2019; Sikora et al , 2017; Yang et al , 2013; Yang and Gao, 2016; Zha and Yu, 2014; Zhang et al , 2018c, 2018a, 2020); and some articles solve the randomly generated problems (Gamberini et al , 2006, 2009; Makssoud et al , 2013, 2015; Yang and Gao, 2016; Yılmaz and Erol, 2005; Zha and Yu, 2014).…”

Reducing the Negative Effects of Seasonal Demand Fluctuations: A Proposal Based On Cost-Benefit Analysis

“…However, the flexible production strategies can not only be developed by investments but also with various arrangements in the existing production system. For example in the study carried out by [23] in the clothing industry, they have created a line adjustment model related to planting processes harboring many operations herein. With this flexibility upgraded joining lines, the loss costs happening due to operational costs, processing costs, capacity increase costs, and foreign resource utilization costs have been minimized.…”