A Novel Assembly Line Balancing Method Based on PSO Algorithm

Table 5

The 28 job elements assembly balancing comparison result.

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, 5, 3, 2, 8	38.24	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	38.46	1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10	38.69
2	4, 10, 12	34.38	8, 9, 10, 11	39.17	6, 7, 9, 12	36.02
3	9, 14, 15, 11	32.38	12, 13, 14	44.07	11, 13, 14	34.86
4	13, 18	35.64	15, 16, 17	41.7	15, 16, 19	35.03
5	16, 21, 19	36.79	18, 19, 20, 21, 22	37.16	17, 18, 20, 21	38.86
6	17, 20, 23	36.96	23	26.9	22, 24	38.4
7	24, 22	38.40	24	33.43	23, 25	38.53
8	7, 25, 6, 27, 26, 28	35.40	25, 26, 27, 28	27.3	5, 26, 27, 28	27.8
TT	38.40		44.07		38.86
P	93.81%		81.74%		92.70%
SI	3.035		9.988		4.491
𝑓1	20.72		27.03		21.68