Improvability of assembly systems. I: Problem formulation and performance evaluation

DOI10.1155/S1024123X0000137XMaRDI QIDQ5950079zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S.-Y. Chiang, J.-T. Lim, S. M. Meerkov, Chen-Tsung Kuo

Publication date 23 September 2002

Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/49357

zbMATH Keywords

assembly systemsBottleneckbufferconstrained and unconstrained improvabilityimprovability theoryinventoryperformance measuresunreliable machinesworkforce

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Production models (90B30)

Review text

Summary: This work develops improvability theory for assembly systems. It consists of two parts. Part I includes the problem formulation and the analysis technique. Part II (see the review below) presents the so-called improvability indicators and a case study. Improvability theory addresses the questions of improving performance in production systems with unreliable machines. We consider both constrained and unconstrained improvability. In the constrained case, the problem consists of determining if there exists a re-distribution of resources (inventory and workforce), which leads to an increase in the system's production rate. In the unconstrained case, the problem consists of identifying a machine and a buffer, which impede the system performance in the strongest manner. The investigation of the improvability properties requires an expression for the system performance measures as functions of the machine and buffer parameters. This paper presents a method for evaluating these functions and illustrates their practical utility using a case study at an automotive components plant. Part II uses the method developed here to establish conditions of improvability and to describe additional results of the case study.

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