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An assembly system is one of the subsystems in a manufacturing system – factory – where the individual components of a product are joined together and thus integrated into a semifinished or into the final product.
The Oxford dictionary defines assembly as the action of fitting together the component parts of a machine or other object and system as a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network, a complex whole (Oxford dictionary).
Most noticeable examples of assembly systems are assembly lines and assembly cells.
The Cambridge online dictionary further defines an assembly line as a line of machines and workers in a factory where a product moves along while it is being built or produced. Each machine or worker performs a particular job, which must be finished before the product moves to the next position in the line (Cambridge dictionary).
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An assembly system is a working...
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Butala, P., Mpofu, K. (2015). Assembly Systems. In: The International Academy for Produ, ., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_16789-1
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