A heuristic approach for joint design of assembly and disassembly line balancing problem

Balancing assembly and disassembly on parallel line together will positively affect to remanufacture production systems. In this study, two lines, which is one for assembly and other for disassembly, are considered as parallel line configuration. Parallelization of lines helps decrease the need for workforce significantly. Therefore, we propose heuristic approach based on ant colony optimization (ACO) for solving the balancing parallel line with minimizing number of workstations.