In production systems of automobile manufacturers, multi-variant products are assembled on paced final assembly lines. The assignment of operations to workplaces and workers deter mines the productivity of the manufacturing process. In research, various exact and heuristic solution procedures...

In vorliegender Arbeit wird das Problem der kostenorientierten Losgr??en- und Reihenfolgebestimmung bei getakteter Mehrproduktflie?linienfertigung untersucht. Das Problem kann als Teilproblem der Produktionsablaufplanung f?r den Fall der Serien- oder Sortenproduktion charakterisiert werden....

Purpose: Time and Space assembly line balancing problem (TSALBP) is the problem of balancing the line taking the area required by the task and to store the tools into consideration. This area is important to be considered to minimize unplanned traveling distance by the workers and consequently...

This article offers a stylization of the assembly line production process. The model that emerges from this exercise serves to further explicate the role of management in allocating resources, and the effect of technical progress on resource allocation and market structure.

Purpose: In this paper, a combined Production Line Design (PLD) process which includes many design aspects is presented, developped and validated. Design/methodology/approach: The PLD process is based on the SADT (Structured Analysis and Design Technique) diagram and the Axiomatic Design (AD)...

The interest to study this factory of GM group in Portugal is due to the facto of being one of the oldest assembly lines of the automotive sector still operating in Portugal (it was founded in 1963). Besides that, it went recently across a very intensive technological change, and then would be...