There are 5 zones (Washing, Drying, painting, oven etc) on the assembly line (its  a paint line) with variable cycle time for each part.e.g. - Part 1 takes 15 minutes in zone 1 (Washing) and part 2 take 20 minutes in Zone 1 (washing), whereas part 1 take 25 minutes in zone 2 (drying) and part 2 takes 5 minutes in zone 2 (drying) and so on.There are 250 different parts.How to create a sequence of loading the parts on to the paint line so are to minimize the starvation/blocking of the complete line.
Assembly line Balancing problem
optimization