Development of agricultural machinery operating service in Chongqing takes on rapid increase in number of service organizations, diversified service methods, improvement in service level, and constant service income. However, there are some problems, including unreasonable composition and small...

A new branch-and-bound algorithm is presented to solve the two-sided assembly line balancing problem of type 1 (TALB-1). First, a pair of two directly facing station is defined as a position, and then the two-sided assembly line (TAL) is relaxed to a one-sided assembly line (OAL). Some new lower...