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Effects of an Ageing Workforce on the Performance of Assembly Systems

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In this chapter we present the results of a four-year research project structured in two phases. The topic is a simulation supported approach to analyse and re-structure existing assembly systems (phase 1) respectively to develop a new approach for planning pulsed assembly lines (phase 2).

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From January 2006 until March 2010 this project with the title “Effects of an Aging Workforce on the Productivity of Manufacturing Systems” and the support code ZU 55/56-1 and ZU 55/56-2 was part of the DFG research program “Age-differentiated Work Systems”. Members of the project research team were Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Gert Zülch, Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Marcel Becker until 2008 and Dipl.-Wi.-Ing. Martin Waldherr since 2008.

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  1. ifab-Institute of Human and Industrial Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Gert Zülch, Martin Waldherr & Marcel Becker

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    Christopher Marc Schlick

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  3. , Inst. of Work-, Organisational- and, TU Dresden, Zellescher Weg 17, Dresden, 01062, Germany

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Zülch, G., Waldherr, M., Becker, M. (2013). Effects of an Ageing Workforce on the Performance of Assembly Systems. In: Schlick, C., Frieling, E., Wegge, J. (eds) Age-Differentiated Work Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35057-3_4

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