Abstract
This chapter is devoted to production scheduling in flexible assembly lines. A flexible assembly line (or a mixed-model assembly line) is a unidirectional flow type production system. It consists of several assembly stages in series, either separated by finite interstage buffers or with no intermediate buffers between the stages. Each stage has one or more identical parallel machines. The line can produce several different part types simultaneously. Each part must be assembled by at most one machine in each stage, but some parts may skip some stages. In the line with limited intermediate buffers limited queueing between the assembly stages may occur, whereas in the line with no buffers queueing is not allowed.
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