...Narges Asadi; Mats Jackson; Anders Fundin Purpose The recent shift towards accommodating flexibility in manufacturing companies and the complexity resulting from product variety highlight the significance of flexible assembly systems and designing products for them. The purpose of this paper...

...Dr Sabry Shaaban; Dr Abdul Salam Darwish; Yuval Cohen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a comprehensive modelling technique that supports the assembly of very complex products that require intensive use of both computerized worker guidance and automation. The modelling enables...

...Sabry Shaaban; Sarah Hudson; B.B. Biswal; B.B. Deepak; Y. Rao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a new methodology to find out the best robotic assembly sequence amongst feasible robotic sequences. Design/methodology/approach The feasible robotic assembly sequences were generated...

...Robin Hanson; Lars Medbo; Per Medbo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine how kitting, compared to continuous supply, affects the time spent by the assembler fetching parts in manual assembly. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on an experimental setup at the Saab...

... of this paper is to expand the body of knowledge by describing the dynamic consequences that arise from shifting the CODP upstream or downstream. Design/methodology/approach A generic assembly‐to‐order system dynamics simulation model is developed and used to evaluate the dynamic consequences of shifting...

...Hamid Ullah; Erik L.J. Bohez Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new generic Petri net (PN) model based on assembly plan for assembly sequence optimization. The model aims to allow modeling the flexible assembly system (FAS) configuration, determining the optimal work in process...

...Peter Fredriksson Purpose To identify operations and logistics issues which are critical for the operational performance in modular assembly processes. Design/methodology/approach Based on case studies of Volvo Cars, Toyota, and Saab, the paper identifies operations and logistics issues...

...W. Ho; P. Ji Purpose This paper sets out to study a production‐planning problem for printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. A PCB assembly company may have a number of assembly lines for production of several product types in large volume. Design/methodology/approach Pure integer linear...

...S. Rajakumar; V.P. Arunachalam; V. Selladurai Purpose To provide a new model to solve the assembly‐planning problem of a textile machine in a shopfloor which can help researchers and practitioners. Design/methodology/approach The assembly planning of a textile machine (repetitive manufacturing...

...Roongrat Seeluangsawat; Erik L.J. Bohez This paper presents a new generic Petri net (PN) model for design and performance evaluation of a flexible assembly system (FAS) and disassembly system (DAS) with dual kanban. The architectural design of the model is derived from a generic bill of materials...

...Wei‐Shing Chen; Chiuh‐Cheng Chyu This paper considers the decision problem for a minimum setup strategy of a production system arising in the assembly of printed circuit boards of different types, using a placement machine with multi‐slot feeders. We formulate the problem as a binary linear...

...Hsin‐Pin Fu; Luis G Occena; Li‐Hsing Ho; Tien‐Hsiang Chang; Kwo‐Liang Chen To build assembly machines to best suit the needs of anticipated production, machine builders need to spend much time deciding what type of machine system and control system to select and what kinds of devices to use...

...Li‐Hsing Ho Electronics manufacturers use robots extensively in printed circuit board (PCB) assembly to attain high product quality at low production times. In robotic PCB assembly, fixed pick‐and‐place (FPP) causes unnecessary waste of time. A former paper explored the dynamic pick‐and‐place (DPP...

... from the point of view of assembly design, work organization and automation. Then the evolution of the Swedish model of production and its influence on the lean model is considered. Subsequently, the question of similarities and differences between the systems is studied in light of unique aspects...

... assigned. Points out that, in fact, robotics travel routing should be based on a relative coordinate because the robotics, board and magazine simultaneously move at different speeds during assembly. Consequently, the coordinates of placement point and magazine are constantly changing. In this study...

... conformance zone ‐ represents a bus bar that will always assemble with its hangers. Tolerances are generally bilateral (set upper and lower limits of some kind), with one limit usually set by assembly requirements ‐ addressed here through an example ‐ and the other set by functional requirements...

...Sameh M. Saad; Mike D. Byrne A comprehensive analysis of a flexible hybrid assembly system (FHAS) where automated devices and human operators interact is presented. A computer simulation programme and ANOVA were conducted to identify which factors significantly affect the measures of performance...

...Hubert K. Rampersad During recent years numerous design for assembly methods have been developed to optimize product design for robotic assembly and hence reduce assembly costs. Various bottlenecks in product design are, however, still encountered with the widespread application of robotic assembly...

... assembly sequence and component magazine assignment to evaluate the performances of these three set‐ups. Experimental results indicated that the 2M1B set‐up is more than two times superior to the 1m1B set‐up in all cases and is also superior to the 1M2B set‐up. The performance of the 1M1B set‐up...

... are machine tools, ships, aircraft and buildings. Design for assembly techniques are a method by which design and manufacture can be integrated and aid the realization of full‐process concurrent engineering. Quantifies the significance of this product domain to the UK economy, describes the particular nature...