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Assembly lines are production flow-lines made up of purely assembly operations, which are of great importance in the industrial production of high quality, standardize commodities. Recently assembly lines even gained importance in low volume production of customize product. Due to high capital requirement when installing or redesigning a line its configuration planning is of great relevance for practitioners, hence this attract attention of plenty researchers who tried to support real world configuration planning. By suited optimization model, (assembly line balancing problem) .Inspite of the enormous academic effort in assembly line balancing it has been observed that there remains a considerable gap between the requirement of the real configuration problem and the status of the research. The paper provides a classification scheme of assembly line balancing and the various optimization techniques, which are used for solving the problem of ALB. Assembly line have been conventionally classified into two types i.e. type I focuses on minimizing the number of work stations for a given cycle time and type II minimizing the cycle time for a fixed number of work stations.