Production Lines That Balance Themselves

自我平衡的生产线

• 批准号: 9215564
• 负责人: John Bartholdi
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-11-01 至 1996-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9215564&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Production; Lines; Balance; Themselves

This research focuses on decentralized rules for coordinating work in a manufacturing system. For example, workers might move from station to station, each following a simple rule that tells what to do next. For properly designed rule sets, global coordination of the workers can evolve spontaneously from their independent activities. Thus the production line can be self- organizing: without management intervention it constantly reallocates work to maximize throughput, even under perturbations such as changes in the number of workers or in the time required to perform a task. This idea is in contradistinction to less flexible means of production, such as the classical assembly line, in which a centralized authority allocates work by making a one-time assignment of tasks and workers to stations. This assignment is then rigidly followed by all workers. Experiments and validation of results will be carried out in collaboration with industrial laboratories and manufacturing facilities.

这项研究的重点是协调制造系统中工作的分散规则。 例如，工作人员可能会从一个站点移动到另一个站点，每个站点都遵循一个简单的规则来告诉下一步该做什么。 对于正确设计的规则集，工人的全球协调可以从他们的独立活动中自发发展。 因此，生产线可以是自组织的：无需管理干预，即使在工人数量或执行任务所需时间变化等干扰下，它也会不断地重新分配工作以最大化吞吐量。 这一想法与不太灵活的生产方式形成鲜明对比，例如经典的装配线，在传统的装配线中，中央集权机构通过一次性将任务和工人分配到工作站来分配工作。 所有工人都严格遵守这项任务。 实验和结果验证将与工业实验室和制造设施合作进行。