A Novel Assembly Line Balancing Method Based on PSO Algorithm

Table 3

The comparison of assembly line balancing result in Example  1.

Station	PSO		Manual Balance Search		Tabu Search algorithm
	Job	Time 𝑇𝑗	Job	Time 𝑇𝑗	Job	Time 𝑇𝑗
	Element 𝑗		Element 𝑗		Element 𝑗
1	1, 3	0.90	1, 2	0.6	1, 2, 4	0.70
2	2, 5, 4	0.80	3, 4	0.8	3, 6	0.70
3	8, 6	0.71	5, 6, 7	0.73	5, 8	0.90
4	10, 7	0.70	8, 9	0.87	7, 10	0.81
5	9, 11, 12	0.89	10, 11, 12	1.0	9, 11, 12	0.89
TT	0.90		1.0		0.90
P	88.8%		80%		88.8%
SI	0.1313		0.2407		0.1328
𝑓1	0.5157		0.6204		0.5164