Team-oriented assembly system design: a new approach
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A design methodology is presented wherein workers are organized into semi-autonomous teams with well-defined responsibilities. The concept, called "team-oriented assembly", creates a more satisfactory working environment while supporting the objectives of modern assembly systems. The design parameters include the number of teams, precedence relationship between them, team size and work content of each team. At the same time, bill of material elements were assigned to the teams for implementation of a product-oriented problem-solving approach.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1997
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Genetic algorithm for assembly line balancing
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The assembly line balancing (ALB) problem is analyzed in terms of genetic algorithms (GA). GA performance is then compared with the MUST algorithm, which offers diverse and optimal solutions to the ALB case. GA exhibited faster solutions for diverse cases involving large station numbers compared to MUST. GA also generated best results for the flexibility ratio and work-element to station ratio problems compared to MUST, which had restricted computer resources.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1995
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'On the Fly' line balancing with very little WIP
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An analysis of dynamic line balancing (DLB) is presented. The DLB system allows workers on a production line to assist each other in doing some tasks without sacrificing work quality. The application of DLB to situations involving buffer capacity of 2 or less per stage has been questioned. However, this question has been resolved as the system was validated even for conditions of absent buffers.
Publication Name: International Journal of Production Economics
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0925-5273
Year: 1992
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