Assembly line design using a hybrid approach of lean manufacturing and balancing models

This manuscript presents a method to design automotive production assembly lines that integrate lean manufacturing approaches and line balancing algorithms. In this work, we develop a clustering algorithm and task mutuality index for the assembly tasks to redesign and rebalance an assembly productio...

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Main Authors: Ala Qattawi, Sreenath Chalil Madathil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-01-01
Series:Production and Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693277.2019.1604274