Some Generalizations of Bucket Brigade Assembly Lines

Manufacturing systems;Bucket brigades;Work-sharing;Assembly line balancing;Dynamical systems;Self-organizing systems

Lim, Yun Fong ; Industrial and Systems Engineering

University:Georgia Institute of Technology

Department:Industrial and Systems Engineering

关键词: Manufacturing systems;    Bucket brigades;    Work-sharing;    Assembly line balancing;    Dynamical systems;    Self-organizing systems;   

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美国|英语

来源: SMARTech Repository

【 摘 要 】

A fascinating feature of bucket brigade assembly lines is that work load on workers is balanced spontaneously as workers follow some simple rules in the assembly process. This self-organizingproperty significantly reduces the management effort on an assembly line. We generalize this idea in several directions. These include an adapted bucket brigade protocol for complex assembly networks, a generalized model that permits chaotic behavior, and a more detailed model for a flow line in which jobs arrive arbitrarily in time and are introduced into the system at several points on the line.