Managing bottlenecks in manual automobile assembly systems using discrete event simulation
Batch model lines are quite handy when the demand for each product is moderate. However, they are characterised by high work-in-progress inventories, lost production time when changing over models, and reduced flexibility when it comes to altering production rates as product demand changes. On the o...
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| Language: | English |
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Stellenbosch University
2013-08-01
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| Series: | South African Journal of Industrial Engineering |
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| Online Access: | http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/567 |