(18th ICPR) INTEGRATING INSPECTION POLICY DESIGN IN ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING

Omar Egidio Carcano (1) , Alberto Portioli-Staudacher (2)

1 Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
2 Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

This paper addresses the problem of assembly line balancing and selection of the best inspection policy. Different inspection policies yield different manufacturing, reworking, inspection and external failure costs. While in literature assembly line balancing and inspection policy design have usually been addressed as different problems, they are strongly interrelated. Inspection tests requires time to be performed and thus their assignation directly influences the results of the assembly line balancing procedure, that is the number of stations that are necessary and hence the line installation cost. Provided what said above, the advantage of integrating inspection policy design in assembly line balancing appears clear, but to our knowledge there is not such a model yet. In this paper a new model that defines simultaneously inspection policy and assembly line balancing is presented.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Omar Egidio Carcano, Alberto Portioli-Staudacher. (18th ICPR) INTEGRATING INSPECTION POLICY DESIGN IN ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING. International Journal of Production Research, 2006, 44 (18-19), pp.4081-4103. ⟨10.1080/00207540600786681⟩. ⟨hal-00512917⟩