Kahan, Tomer; Bukchin, Yossi; Menassa, Roland; Ben-Gal, Irad - In: International Journal of Production Economics 120 (2009) 2, pp. 315-326
Automotive assembly lines are often characterized by robots' failures that may result in stoppages of the lines and manual backup of tasks. The phenomena tend to impair throughput rate and products' quality. This paper presents a backup strategy in which working robots perform tasks of failed...