...Armagan Altinisik; Utku Yildirim; Y. Ilker Topcu Purpose The tightening operations are one of the most critical operations in automotive assembly lines because of its direct impact on customer safety. This study aims to evaluate the major complexity drivers for manual tightening operations...

...Yixiong Feng; Chuan He; Yicong Gao; Hao Zheng; Jianrong Tan Purpose To find the system with minimum investment and best quality performance that is capable of producing all of the product variants, assessing the complexity of designing assembly system at the early concept stage is an essential...

...S.N. Samy; H.A. ElMaraghy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present methods for assessing and mapping the complexity of products and their assembly. In cases of complexity of assembly it is important to consider and model at the product design stages when only data about individual parts...