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Technical Note

A Cost-Oriented Approach to Stochastic Line Balancing1

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Pages 164-171 | Received 01 Jun 1972, Published online: 09 Jul 2007
 

Abstract

This paper presents a new heuristic for balancing paced assembly lines involving tasks which exhibit significant time variations. Labor and incompletion costs are explicitly considered in grouping tasks into work assignments to achieve a near minimum cost line design. The procedure is computationally attractive because its calculations are comparably efficient to those of heuristics which consider task times deterministically.

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