Automated design of multi-station assembly lines

Automated assembly lines are a fundamental part of today’s manufacturing industry. Due to shortening product life cycles and an increasing number of product variants, assembly lines have to be designed with increasing frequency. Currently, all design decisions are based on the knowledge and expertis...

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Published inProcedia CIRP Vol. 79; pp. 137 - 142
Main Authors Leiber, Daria, Hammerstingl, Veit, Weiß, Felix, Reinhart, Gunter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2019
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Assembly line design
Capability modelling
Knowledge-based planning
Resource positioning
Capability modelling
Knowledge-based planning
Assembly line design
Resource positioning
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Summary:Automated assembly lines are a fundamental part of today’s manufacturing industry. Due to shortening product life cycles and an increasing number of product variants, assembly lines have to be designed with increasing frequency. Currently, all design decisions are based on the knowledge and expertise of engineers and the design process results in a high amount of manual effort. This paper therefore presents an approach to making the knowledge of these experts explicit and using it as the basis for the automated planning of multi-station assembly lines. The proposed planning method includes the scheduling of the assembly line and the selection of resources and their positioning into a feasible layout.
ISSN:2212-8271
2212-8271
DOI:10.1016/j.procir.2019.02.029