A real-time sequence control system for the level production of the automobile assembly line

✍ Scribed by Wonjoon Choi; Hyunoh Shin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 333 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-8352
• DOI: 10.1016/s0360-8352(97)00249-0

✦ Synopsis

In the automobile industry, mixed-model assembly lines are used to produce many different vehicles without carrying large inventory. For achieving high productivity, it is required to keep a constant rate of usage of parts used by the assembly line. We have developed a new dynamic sequencing method for level production of assembly line and built up an automated sequence-control system which had been operated manually. In this paper, we present i) the nature of sequence control problems, ii) a dynamic sequence control algorithm, and iii) the experience of automating a buffer control system.