摘要:AbstractThe evolution of assembly lines towards the production of highly customized goods requires some organizational changes. The use of kits, providing presorted parts to assembly stations, was initiated by the need to supply a multitude of parts and their variants to the assembly line. In this paper, we investigate the kitting cell design problem and propose an optimization model to minimize the material handling, investment, and space costs for kitting cells. We show that applying our model to an automotive company’s kitting cell can reduce the total cost by approximately up to 11% compared with heuristics approaches.