MULTI OBJECTIVE GENERALIZED RESOURCE CONSTRAINED TWO SIDED ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING PROBLEM AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALAYSIS

Assembly of large size products like bus, truck and automobile can perform both sides of assembly line. In such cases, both sides (right and left) of the line are used to achieve for the assembly operation. These types of the lines are called as two sided assembly lines. When large size products are produced, sometimes they require a specific machine or a qualified staff to use this machine. This condition also exposes the problem of resource constraint. Therefore, in this study, a mathematical model for generalized resource constraint two sided assembly line balancing problem is presented, based on literature models and computational analysis is performed for multi-objective situation. Proposed model is run and analyzed over several known test problems by considering three objective functions (Minimization number of station, number of position and resource cost).