Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?
综述了2006-2007年以来装配线平衡问题的研究进展，涵盖数据收集方法、新问题变体、模型和算法，并展望未来研究方向，适合生产管理、工业工程领域学者快速了解该领域动态。
Ever since the times of Henry Ford up to today’s industry 4.0 era, flow-oriented assembly processes, where an assembly line conveys the workpieces from workstation to workstation, are very important for mass-producers in manifold branches of industry. Among the most elementary optimization problems in this context is the assembly line balancing problem, which decides on the division of labor among the stations of an assembly line. This paper surveys the scientific literature on assembly line balancing that has been published since the last major review papers have appeared in 2006 and 2007, respectively. We cover all essential stages of the decision making process: we address novel methods to efficiently gather the relevant (precedence graph) data, review especially new problem variants and models treated in the literature, and survey the most important algorithmic developments. Furthermore, we outline a possible research agenda for the next fifteen years.