Analysis of an automobile assembly line as a network of closed loops working in both, stationary and transitory regimes (PhD)

Arturo Resano Lázaro (1) , Carmelo J Luis Perez (2)

1 Mecanical, Energetics and Materials Engineering Department
2 Mechanical, Energetics and Materials Engineering Department

In this work a real automobile assembly line and the correspondent preassembly lines have been analyzed as a network of closed loops of machines decoupled by intermediate buffers. This work deals with some important aspects, which have still not been investigated in earlier literature, such as: machines processing pallets, which are not related to each other and depend on an external variable in a network with closed loops of machines and intermediate buffers, machines working at different cycle times in a network of closed loops of machines and intermediate buffers, machines working in both, stationary and transitory regime and the relationships between the cycle times of the machines in the stationary working regime in order to guarantee the production rate of the system. Finally how the transient results can be used to improve the performance of the system under certain working conditions is discussed.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Arturo Resano Lázaro, Carmelo J Luis Perez. Analysis of an automobile assembly line as a network of closed loops working in both, stationary and transitory regimes (PhD). International Journal of Production Research, 2008, 46 (17), pp.4803-4825. ⟨10.1080/00207540601182294⟩. ⟨hal-00512972⟩