The general practice in mixed model assembly line balancing is to assign work to stations in a manner that each station has an equal amount of work on a daily or shift basis. This paper shows how a ...

This paper considers the problem of mixed-model assembly-line balancing. First, the balance problem is formulated, and some of the difficulties of achieving effective balances in practice are noted.

The mixed model extends the general linear model by allowing a more flexible specification of the covariance matrix of . In other words, it allows for both correlation and heterogeneous variances, ...