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The operating behaviour of unbalanced, unpaced merging assembly lines

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  • Tom Mcnamara

    (ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business)

  • Sabry Shaaban

    (Sup de Co La Rochelle - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de la Rochelle - Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle)

  • Abdelkader Sbihi

    (Brest Business School)

  • Zouhair Laarraf

    (Sup de Co La Rochelle - Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de la Rochelle - Groupe Sup de Co La Rochelle)

Abstract

Unbalanced assembly line research has grown in importance because of its increasing applications in emerging economies, reverse logistics and remanufacturing. This paper examines the performance of numerous simulated patterns for reliable unbalanced manual merging assembly lines. The contribution of this study to the literature is that imbalance does not always negatively impact efficiency and that it can improve merging line performance when compared to a corresponding balanced merging line. The best performance was found to be a balanced line configuration and a monotone decreasing order for both parallel merging lines, with the former generally resulting in a lower throughput and the latter resulting in a lower average buffer level than that of a balanced line.

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  • Tom Mcnamara & Sabry Shaaban & Abdelkader Sbihi & Zouhair Laarraf, 2021. "The operating behaviour of unbalanced, unpaced merging assembly lines," Post-Print hal-03182921, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03182921
    DOI: 10.1051/ro/2020126
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