Araujo, Felipe F. B.; Costa, Alysson M.; Miralles Insa, Cristóbal Javier(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2015)
[EN] In this paper, we study an assembly line balancing problem that occurs in sheltered worker centres for the disabled, where workers with very different characteristics are present. We are interested in the situation ...
We propose the Assembly Line Worker Integration and Balancing Problem (ALWIBP), a new assembly line balancing problem arising in lines with conventional and disabled workers. The goal of this problem is to maintain high ...
Araujo, Felipe F.B.; Costa, Alysson M.; Miralles Insa, Cristóbal Javier(Elsevier, 2012)
[EN] In this article, we introduce two new variants of the ALWABP that allow parallelization of and collaboration between heterogeneous workers.
These new approaches suppose an additional level of complexity in the Line ...