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Assembly Line

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CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering

Synonyms

Assembly facility; Assembly machine; Assembly plant; Assembly system; Production line

Definition

Assembly line is an assembly system in which several workstations are linked together in the sequence of operations required (CIRP 2004).

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Assembly Line, Fig. 1
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Scheme of a typical semiautomatic assembly line (CIRP 2004)

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Industrial Engineering and Assembly Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University München, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85747, Garching, Bavaria, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

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  1. Gunther Reinhart
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  1. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  2. Technische Universität München, München, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

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Reinhart, G. (2014). Assembly Line. In: Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20617-7_8

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