DocumentCode
1355542
Title
Compression of time in manufacturing systems
Author
Hsieh, Chung-Chi ; Woo, Tony C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Ind. Manage. Sci., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
Volume
16
Issue
3
fYear
2000
fDate
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
239
Lastpage
246
Abstract
As data can be compressed, we inquire if time can also be compressed. In the context of manufacturing systems, time compression adopts such names as “concurrency” or “simultaneity”. While it may be intuitively appealing that scaling (halving the size of a task, for example) should be linear (halving the time), such is not quite the case, as we have discovered. We report a quantitative explanation for the nonlinear behavior of time, as a function of the size of a task and the number of agents performing the task
Keywords
computational complexity; concurrent engineering; data compression; entropy; concurrency; manufacturing systems; scaling; simultaneity; time compression; Aircraft manufacture; Airplanes; Assembly; Computer architecture; Design engineering; Fabrication; Manufacturing systems; Parallel architectures; Pipelines; Production;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Robotics and Automation, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1042-296X
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/70.850642
Filename
850642
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