¹Wichita State University, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, 1845 Fairmount Wichita, KS 67260-0035, USA
²Dogus University, Industrial Engineering Department, Zeamet Sok. No.21, Acibadem, Istanbul, Turkey
³Intertech Information Technology and Marketing Inc., Kasap Sok. No.15, Esentepe, Istanbul, Turkey
⁴Wichita State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1845 Fairmount Wichita, KS 67260-0044, USA

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Abstract—Although the use of electronic component placement machines has brought reliability and speed to the printed circuit board (PCB) assembly process, to get higher utilization, one needs to solve the resulting complex operations research problems efficiently. In this study, the problem of distributing the assembly workload to two machines deployed on an assembly line with two identical component placement machines to minimize the line idle time is considered. This problem is NP-Complete even in its simplest form. A mathematical model and several heuristics have been proposed to solve this problem efficiently.

Index Terms—Printed Circuit Board Assembly, Load Balancing, Heuristics

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Cite: Mehmet Bayram Yildirim, Ekrem Duman, Dilek Duman, Coskun Cetinkaya, "Allocation of Component Types to Machines in the Automated Assembly of Printed Circuit Boards," Journal of Computers vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 11-19 , 2007.