@article{article_650850, title={A Problem-Solving Environment to Teach Students Assembly Line Balancing Techniques}, journal={Erzincan University Journal of Science and Technology}, volume={12}, pages={1690–1699}, year={2019}, DOI={10.18185/erzifbed.650850}, author={Yılmaz, Hamid and Demir, Yunus}, keywords={assembly line balancing,manufacturing systems,problem-solving,mathematical modelling}, abstract={<p class="02-Abstract" style="text-indent:0cm;"> <span lang="en-us" style="font-size:10pt;" xml:lang="en-us">Assembly line balancing is a production planning strategy that has been
widely used in industrial applications. Most line balancing problems are known
as nondeterministic polynomial time (NP-hard) problem, and they have different
structures and solution methodology approaches. In this study, newly developed
production planning software which is called Visual Assembly Line Balancing Software
(VALBS) is introduced for educational purposes. The aim of the software is to
support teaching activity for assembly line balancing techniques; facilitate
understanding characteristics of different assembly lines and solution
approaches, and enable to compare the results of them. The proposed VALBS is
easy to use in various manufacturing environments, and suitable to support
teaching line balancing procedures in undergraduate students. The software was
used in classes of industrial and mechanical engineering students and feedbacks
of students measured by Likert Scale survey. The results show that proposed
visual software is an effective method to teach line balancing procedures. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>}, number={3}, publisher={Erzincan Binali Yildirim University}