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This study deals with the problem of the assignment of workers to the stations and the balancing of the assembly line in an electronics company. The approach used to solve this problem consists of two stages. In the first stage, a mathematical model is presented which takes into account the information about which jobs the workers can and cannot do, whether the workers are present during the assignment to the stations, which equipment/ equipments the jobs should be done with, and the stations where these equipments are located and the various assignment constraints related to the jobs. As a result of this model being solved with LINGO optimization software, information about which jobs and workers are assigned to which stations is obtained. In the second stage, the assembly line which is arranged using the information obtained from the first stage, in order to test whether the assembly line reaches the desired production target under real life constraints, ARENA simulation model which takes into consideration the factors such as conveyor movement between stations, intermediate inventory areas and stochastic variability in operation times that could not be considered in the present mathematical model is presented. The results obtained from the simulation model show that under these conditions the output amount is below the production target. Then, a solution is achieved that reaches the desired production target by making improvement suggestions for the current system.

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