Presently, the arising of industrial revolution has encouraged the advance of technology especially in manufacturing engineering industry. Assembly line balancing (ALB) plays very importance role in manufacturing due to improve the process of efficiency and increase the production rate. In this case, authors have a tendency to study and explore in detail about assembly line balancing problem (ALBP). This paper aims to review the research objectives on ALBP based on 60 articles that try to solve this problem using various approach. In general, this paper performs a survey of ALBP research from 2017 to 2018 in order to see the trend of current study. The publication that listed in this survey have create some division section of ALBP research that describe in short the classification of ALB and the objectives of research. The literature review in research objective may highlight the significant objectives in ALB and provide guidance for future work to look into the research gap.
