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Abstract
Battarra et al. recently proposed a novel assembly line balancing problem with applications to the apparel industry, where the tasks are performed in a fixed order. To solve the problem, one has to assign workers and tasks to the workstations with the objective of maximising the throughput of the assembly line. In this paper, we provide dynamic programming formulations for the general problem and some special cases. We then use these formulations to develop an exact solution approach that optimally solves the instances in Battarra et al. within seconds.
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Funding
Our research has been supported by CNPq (grant 420348/2016-6), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Finance Code 001 and by the Chilean Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) through Fondecyt (grant 1191624 “Assembly line balancing for industry 4.0”).