...Sabry Shaaban; Sarah Hudson; Yuval Cohen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain and expose considerations related to the division of assembly lines into segments, and to develop a framework for assessing the impact of line segmentation. In particular, the paper aims to investigate...

... Unequal coefficients of variation Simulation Idle time Average buffer level Throughput Assembly lines Coefficient of variant In contrast to these findings, several researchers found that placing the more steady stations towards the center of the line with the more variable workers at either end...

...Ryspek Usubamatov; Abdul Rahman Riza; Muhamad Nasir Murad Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study and perform a system analysis of car assembly line processes, to show productivity losses and their causes, and to derive a mathematical model of the productivity rate of the assembly line...

...Biman Das; Alberto Garcia‐Diaz; Corinne A. MacDonald; Kalyan K. Ghoshal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a computer simulation model to evaluate increasing versus decreasing mean operation times assembly line arrangement for normal and exponential distributions and the variances...

... variability of operation times. Design/methodology/approach The model was developed on the basis of a realistic case problem and applied to a six‐station assembly line. The evaluation criteria were the: minimization of the total elapsed time; maximization of the average percentage of working time...

... that operators become the customers rather than the transport company or materials handler. Carl Wänström can be contacted at: carl.wanstrom@chalmers.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Materials handling Flexible manufacturing systems Assembly lines Manual handling Packaging processes...

... WIP, maximum throughput, and reduced lead time. The determination of total WIP, total number of stations in the assembly line, and the number of servers at each station may be helpful in the factory floor management. Line balancing may result in the highest efficiency and the shortest idling time...

...Sameh Saad; Terrence Perera; Sameh Saad; Eaid Khalil; Cliff Fowkes; Ivan Basarab‐Horwath; Terrence Perera Purpose To highlight the differences and common features of taboo search (TS) and genetic algorithms (GA) in solving the problem of board‐type sequencing on the assembly line simultaneously...

... with the traditional off‐line repair policy. Silverman and Carter (1986) developed an expected cost model for designing minimum cost assembly lines under conditions of stochastic task times and line stoppages. Their model considered two cost components: 1. 1 normal operating cost which was a function...

...J. Hollingum Examines the CIM strategy being implemented by Jaguar Cars as an attempt at future‐proofing its manufacturing control systems. Discusses the assembly line hardware, monitoring system, scheduling, information displays, supervision maintenance, and how CIM is assisting Jaguar′s total...