Special issue: Unbalanced production line systems: merits and applications

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 23(1/2) 2011

• Unbalanced production systems with floats: analysis and lean design
• A response surface methodology for parameter setting in a dynamic Conwip production control system
• The use of dynamic work sharing production methods to reduce the impact of labour turnover in serial assembly lines
• Unpaced production lines with jointly unbalanced operation time means and buffer capacities – their behaviour and performance
• Modelling of parallel production system with rework paths and its GA based simulator for optimal design
• Metrics and experimental data for assessing unbalanced disassembly lines
• Simulated annealing vs. genetic algorithms applied using a new cost function for the car sequencing problem