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A Case Study on Productivity Improvement for Conveyor Assembly Production Line in Medium and Small-Sized Manufacturing Factories

중소 기업 컨베이어 조립 라인의 생산성 향상 개선 사례

  • Chung, Dae Kwon (Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yun, Won Young (Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2014.09.17
  • Accepted : 2014.12.18
  • Published : 2015.04.15
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Abstract

This paper deals with a case study about productivity improvement in medium and small-sized manufacturing factories. It is popular to improve the productivity of lines by shortening the production cycles and assigning multi jobs to workers. We analyze the production lines and improve the productivity in the case study through multi-functional workers and shortened production lines. Based on the case study, we propose some guidelines to improve the productivity of production lines.

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