An operator assignment model in reconfigurable labour-intensive manufacturing cells
An operator assignment model in reconfigurable labour-intensive manufacturing cells
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2016
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1.5
通讯作者:
T. Kataoka
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T. Kataoka
This paper aims to propose a new mixed integer programming model to solve simultaneously 2-type cell production systems; divided cells and rotating cells by a reconfigurable labour-intensive manufacturing. In general, the divided cells are included in Cellular Manufacturing (CM) and the rotating cells are in Cell Production Systems (CPS). The advantages of CM and CPS have been widely documented by the large amount of literature. However, almost all manufacturing sites have the traditional assembly lines separately where one or several operators carry out parts/all of the operations in a cell. On the other hand, some advanced manufacturing sites have adopted both CM and CPS in order to absorb variability of demand and operators under the environment of limited multi-skilled operators. Especially, if the operators are replaced by robots, they are called robot cells which are focused as an important component of the cyber-physical system in the real world. Therefore, this paper tackles to propose an operator assignment model in reconfigurable labour-intensive manufacturing cells. Firstly, the traditional model is redefined by new parameters. Secondly, the new proposed model is solved by 2-phase optimization problems. Finally, the new model is compared with the traditional model by using numerical experiments.