Abstract
This paper aims to deal with assembly line design from both line balancing and parts feeding (PF) aspects as two-interrelated decision problems while supermarkets are used. These problems arise in the real-world assembly lines (ALs) where decision makers are planning to simultaneously determine the optimal number of stations and the optimal number of supermarkets so that the total installation costs of ALs including line balancing and PF costs are minimized. To this purpose an integrated mathematical model is proposed and its performance is tested through solving a number of benchmark problems and a real case taken from industry.
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