McMullen, Patrick; Frazier, Gregory - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 11 (1999) 2, pp. 149-168
This paper presents a technique for comparing the results of different assembly line balancing strategies by using Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Initially, several heuristics--which can be thought of as assembly line balancing strategies …--were used to solve seven line-balancing problems. The resulting line balance solutions provided two pieces of information that …