Improving performance of a station and smoothing the exit rate in an assembly line

Author

Elmi, Amir ; Nazabadi, Mohammadreza

Author_Institution

Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran,

fYear

2007

fDate

2-4 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1833

Lastpage

1837

Abstract

Assembly line is the most well-known mass production system which was first used by Henry Ford in automobile industries. Malfunction of a station will have an impact on the whole assembly line. Having a great impact on the performance of the whole assembly line, interaction of the stations on each other should be considered precisely. In this paper we will use discrete event simulation to improve performance of a station and the whole assembly line by smoothing the exit rate, which is the entrance rate to the next station. At the end of this article, the results for a case problem are illustrated and several conclusions are driven.

Keywords

assembling; discrete event simulation; mass production; assembly line; discrete event simulation; exit rate smoothing; mass production system; station malfunction; station performance; Assembly systems; Automobiles; Costs; Discrete event simulation; Manufacturing industries; Mass production; Productivity; Smoothing methods; Stochastic processes; Testing; Discrete event simulation; assembly line; performance measure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2007 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1529-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1529-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419509

Filename

4419509