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Production System Performance Improvement by Assembly Line-seru Conversion

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Seru, as a new effective and flexible production system, has been successfully proved in practice and received more and more attention from academic communities. However, line-seru conversion is an interesting but difficult problem because the product demand is uncertain and worker’s skill levels are different. In this paper, we propose a multi-objective model to describe line-seru problem with one product type but many orders for minimizing the total flow time and the total labor cost. Taking line-seru conversion problem in the electronics industries as an example, how much time and cost can be reduced and how many efficiencies can be improved by line-seru conversion are analyzed. According to the solutions of the proposed multi-objective model, seru has a great performance and different seru combinations can bring unequal reduction of time and cost.

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This research was sponsored by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant No. 71401075, 71472089), Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. BK20130753), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. JGQN1403).

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Shao, L., Zhang, Z., Yin, Y. (2017). Production System Performance Improvement by Assembly Line-seru Conversion. In: Xu, J., Hajiyev, A., Nickel, S., Gen, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 502. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1837-4_95

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