Chand, Suresh; Zeng, Ting - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 3 (2001) 2, pp. 138-150
Traditionally, assembly lines are laid out in a straight-line configuration where a worker covers only adjacent … performance of U-line and straight-line layouts. Several analytical and simulation results are presented, and insights are … provided to explain the difference in the performance of U-line and straight-line layouts. To summarize our main results …