Abstract
This letter presents a case study of workforce allocation in a gear assembly line at a motorcycle powertrain manufacturing plant. Through structural modeling of operators' work flow and part flow, assembly system models with different configurations are developed. Using iterative aggregation techniques, the performances of such systems are analyzed, and the associated workforce allocation strategies are investigated. By identifying and mitigating system bottlenecks, improvement recommendations are obtained. Such a study provides an effective method for operator assignment in assembly systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 9076202 |
| Pages (from-to) | 4164-4171 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 Jul |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 IEEE.
Keywords
- Bernoulli model
- Motorcycle manufacturing
- assembly system
- workflow
- workforce allocation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Science Applications
- Control and Optimization
- Artificial Intelligence