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The Design of the U-Shaped Assembly Line to Replace Conveyor Systems  

Park, Seung-Hun (Department of Industrial Engineering, Inha University)
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IE interfaces / v.16, no.2, 2003 , pp. 240-247 More about this Journal
Abstract
Generally, the assembly system relied on conveyor lines is efficient for mass production. But it is not efficient when the product types are often varying and their lot sizes are small. Especially, it is much inefficient for the assembly lines for the electronic products whose types are varying very often. This paper suggests the design of U-shaped assembly lines to replace the existing conveyor systems. The assembly line for the mini-cassette production is dealt with as a case study. The proposed procedure was successfully applied for the design of U-shaped lines. The developed method resulted in the improvement of the productivity such as the decrease of the man power and the cycle time, and the increase of the line utility.
Keywords
U-shaped line; cycle time; working area;
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