Methodology for cost oriented assembly line balancing problems

Assembly lines are special flow-lines production systems which are typical in the industrial production of high quantity standardized commodities. Assembly line balancing is based on evenly distribution of operations between workstations so that each idle time of the machines was minimal. It is assumed that operation times on the machines and the precedence relationship existing between the operations which results from the technology of the production line and the cycle time or the number of machines are known. In the paper short description about general assembly line problem and cost-oriented is described. Next the author presents description of used algorithms. A numerical example is calculated and the results are discussed. Presented paper shows that cost oriented assembly line balancing problem differs from time oriented problem and the differences are underlined.