This paper address the Single Assembly Line Balancing Problem I (SALBP I) using the Variable Neigborhood Descent (VND) with minimizing work station number criterion. The VND algorithm consist of two steps, the generation of the initial solution and the improvement step that using several neighborhoods/local searches. The initial solution is obtained by applying the region approach algorithm and then improved by using two neighborhoods/local searches, the 1-0 insertion and the 1-1 inter-change (swap). The proposed algorithm is tested using data sets from literatures. The result shows that the proposed algorithm produces similar results with the best known solution published.
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